Bhutan has started giving COVID-19 booster shots to senior citizens and priority groups as the Himalayan kingdom tries to stave off the Omicron variant, health ministry officials said on Friday.
Those aged 65 and older, overseas travellers, health workers, sufferers from chronic ailments and all adults living in "high risk" areas are eligible, the officials said.
"As we did for the second dose, mix and match is recommended even for the booster, given its higher efficacy," Sonam Wangchuk, an official of the Royal Centre for Disease Control , was quoted as saying in the Kuensel newspaper. The nation of about 750,000 people says it has vaccinated more than 93% of people older than 12 with a second vaccine dose.
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