Separately, Mr Ong assured the public that it is safe to vaccine children aged six months to five years with the Moderna/Spikevax vaccine, which will be available to them as a primary vaccination. MODERNA/SPIKEVAX VACCINE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN The Moderna/Spikevax bivalent vaccine will be available at all joint testing and vaccination centres from Oct 17. "We have basically stopped counting boosters," he added. Those who are considering of skipping their second booster shot and taking the bivalent dose instead should do so, said Mr Ong. This means that fewer people have adverse reactions after taking booster doses compared to taking it as part of the primary series. “Serious adverse events have been reported in about six in 100,000 vaccinations, and all have recovered or are recovering,” Mr Ong said, adding that the Health Sciences Authority has reported a declining rate of such events with subsequent shots. The original vaccine has been administered more than three million times in Singapore, he noted. “To keep up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccination, if you are 50 years old or older and have achieved minimum protection, you should receive an additional dose within five months to one year of the last vaccine dose,” he said.Īddressing concerns surrounding the updated bivalent dose that targets the original SARS-CoV-2 strain and the Omicron BA.1 variant, Mr Ong said that clinical studies have proven that the dose has the same safety profile as the original Moderna/Spikevax mRNA vaccine. Mr Ong clarified on Sunday that while any person who previously had an infection and two mRNA vaccine shots has minimum protection, such individuals should not consider an infection as a substitute for a vaccine dose.
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