The fall-winter COVID-19 vaccine designed to counter XBB, a subvariant of the Omicron strain, is now available nationwide for people of all ages, free of charge.
The health ministry plans to provide novel coronavirus vaccinations once a year for people 65 and older and those at higher risk of developing severe symptoms.
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THE Department of Health (DoH), together with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Children's Fund (Unicef) on Thursday urged government leaders to create a positive policy environment that would allow them to play an active role in boosting child immunization rate in the Philippines.
Although not mandatory, a COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 6 months and 4 years became available on Oct. 24 in Japan, which is highly recommended by the Japan Pediatric Association.
The health ministry, fearing simultaneous outbreaks of the novel coronavirus and seasonal influenza this winter, decided to shorten the minimum interval between vaccine shots for COVID-19 to three months from the current five to enable more people to get jabbed before the end of the year.