Bookings for a new round of COVID-19 booster shots for fully vaccinated people aged 18 and over on the government’s 1922 platform can be made Wednesday through Friday, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC).
In a statement Monday, the CECC said people 18 or older who received a second COVID-19 jab at least 12 weeks ago (before Nov. 28) can make an appointment for a booster shot to be given Feb. 14-20 at specified hospitals, clinics or other sites across the country.
Appointments for vaccine jabs can also be made by people interested in a first or second COVID-19 vaccine jab.
The appoitment process will be determined by age, with seniors able to make the first bookings.
Those aged 65 and older can start making reservations at 10 a.m. Wednesday, followed by people in the 50-64 age bracket starting at noon, and people in the 18-49 age group starting at 2 p.m., it said.
All three groups of people will be allowed to make an appointment until noon Friday.
A total of around 3 million people will be able to get the booster shot from a batch of 1.5 million doses of Moderna that arrived in Taiwan last month, said CECC spokesperson Chuang Jen-hsiang (???) at a press briefing.
Only half a dose of the Moderna vaccine is used for boosters.
As of Sunday, 74.87 percent of Taiwan’s population had received two vaccine shots, and 23.57 percent had received a booster, according to the CECC.
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel