COVID-19 vaccines targeting current variants to be rolled out from December
Professor Robert Booy urges healthcare workers to get any 'available' vaccine with cases rising and the new versions weeks away.
Practices can order new monovalent COVID-19 vaccines that target circulating Omicron subvariants ahead of a mid-December rollout, the Federal Government has announced.
Amid another surge in cases in recent weeks, federal Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler said the latest Omicron-specific vaccines had been approved following advice from ATAGI.
“While we are no longer in the emergency phase of this pandemic, COVID-19 is still present, and people should continue to follow the advice of the experts from ATAGI, including getting vaccines as required,” Mr Butler said.
The Pfizer and Moderna XBB.1.5 vaccines, expected to be available from 11 December, can be used as primary and booster doses.
