HEALTH NEWS
France became the first nation to begin inoculating its citizens with booster dose
Amid the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant of Covid-19, France on Wednesday began administering booster vaccines for people above the age of 65 years and those with underlying health conditions to improve the protection from the vaccine against the disease.
However, people who received their second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or the Moderna vaccines at least six months earlier could only avail the booster shots. Both the vaccines follow a two-dose regimen and are based on the mRNA technology. Further, the people who have so far been immunised with the single-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine will also be receiving a Pfizer shot as a booster at least four weeks after the first vaccination.
Close to 18 million people would be eligible to receive booster doses.