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"As soon as possible": EU recommends second corona booster for over 60-year-olds

2022-07-12T03:43:30.128Z


"As soon as possible": EU recommends second corona booster for over 60-year-olds Created: 07/12/2022 05:29 Corona has been with us for more than two years now. © Wolfgang Maria Weber/Imago Many people already have a corona booster, and the EU authority is now even recommending a second booster vaccination for over 60-year-olds. Berlin – The EU recommends a second corona booster vaccination for


"As soon as possible": EU recommends second corona booster for over 60-year-olds

Created: 07/12/2022 05:29

Corona has been with us for more than two years now.

© Wolfgang Maria Weber/Imago

Many people already have a corona booster, and the EU authority is now even recommending a second booster vaccination for over 60-year-olds.

Berlin – The EU recommends a second corona booster vaccination for people over the age of 60.

"In view of the renewed increase in cases and hospital admissions at the beginning of the summer, I urge everyone to get vaccinated and boosted as soon as possible," said EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on Monday, according to a statement from the EU health agency ECDC and the EU Medicines Agency EMA.

"We have no time to lose."

Kyriakides called on EU member states to provide “second booster shots immediately” for people aged 60 and over and other particularly vulnerable people.

"As soon as possible": EU authority recommends second corona booster for over 60-year-olds

In Germany, the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) has so far recommended a second booster vaccination for people over the age of 70, at-risk patients and residents of care facilities and employees in the medical field and in care facilities.

In view of the easy transmissibility of the omicron variant of the corona virus, the nationwide seven-day incidence is currently 661.4 new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants.

The German Association of General Practitioners called on the federal government on Friday for a new vaccination campaign to fight the corona pandemic.

"A positive vaccination campaign is needed - not only for the fourth vaccination, but also to close the vaccination gaps for the first and third vaccinations," said the head of the association, Ulrich Weigeldt, to the newspapers of the editorial network Germany (RND).

Source: merkur

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