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Vienna – In Vienna, a booster of the Corona vaccination is now possible for all vaccinated persons already from six months after the second sting. A registration for the vaccination centers or with established physicians is obligatory, dates will start on Tuesday, November 2, 2021. This has been communicated by Vienna Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) on Monday. The federal capital thus probably anticipated the National Immunization Panel (NIG), which has scheduled a meeting on Tuesday, among other things, to the third sting.
From 12 years possible
The NIG will deal as planned on Tuesday with the recommendations on the so-called booster vaccination, it said to All Saints from the Ministry of Health to the APA. Subsequently, the ministry would inform about the decision. The EU Medicines Agency had recommended Moderna’s vaccine for adult boosters only last Monday. It had previously given the green light to a booster containing the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine for people 18 and older.
In Vienna, the release of the third vaccination after six months already applies from the age of twelve years, confirmed a spokesman for Health Councillor Peter Hacker (SPÖ) in response to an APA query. Previously, there were gradations according to age and risk group with recommended booster periods of up to nine to twelve months for adults. In the case of a single dose with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, a booster with an mRNA vaccine is still recommended from 28 days after vaccination.
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