《TAIPEI TIMES》 Omicron BA.1 booster recipients eligible for BA.4/BA.5 jab

/ Staff writer, with CNA

The nearly 1.8 million people in Taiwan who received the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine for the Omicron BA.1 subvariant will be eligible for another booster against the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants as soon as today.

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The Central Epidemic Command Center （CECC） requires at least three months between BA.1 and BA.4/BA.5 boosters, and because the BA.1 jabs were first administered on Sept. 24, the first recipients of the BA. 1 booster can get the bivalent BA.4/BA.5 jab starting today.

There have been 1.799 million people vaccinated against the Omicron BA.1 subvariant in Taiwan to date, meaning they will be eligible for the BA.4/BA.5 booster in the coming weeks, CECC spokesman Chuang Jen-hsiang （莊人祥） told reporters yesterday.

Taiwan still has 920,000 doses of the BA.1 version and 2.21 million doses of the BA.4/BA.5 version in inventory, the CECC said. According to the CECC, 18.9 percent of the population had received a second booster, although among people aged 65 or older that percentage was 43.7 percent.

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