Faced with the fifth wave of the covid-19 epidemic and the rapid spread of the highly contagious omicron variant, the French health authorities recommended that the booster dose of the vaccine be applied starting at three months.
While examining this council of the High Health Authority (HAS), the government indicated that the term will be reduced to 4 months from this Friday, and not from January 3 as initially planned.
So far, the time frame for the booster dose was 5 months after the previous injection.
“Like many other countries, the HAS recommends that the administration of a booster dose can be applied now from 3 months after the previous vaccination in the population eligible for that booster,” the agency wrote in a report published on Friday.
In this text, the HAS also recommends from now on the administration of a booster dose for adolescents aged 12 to 17 years who suffer from immunodeficiency or a comorbidity with serious risk, according to the same modalities as adults.
France registered 91,608 covid cases on Thursday, a record since the start of the pandemic.
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