Ottawa: National advisory of Canada has recommended taking third Covid-19 vaccines to certain immunocompromised individuals on Friday. But the body has not reached to a decision whether to provide additional vaccine shots to the broader population.
The new recommendations released by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) on Friday state that stipulate that moderately to severely immunocompromised Canadians should be vaccinated with a primary series of three doses of an authorized mRNA-based vaccine, which includes those from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, a CBC media report said.
“For those who’ve already had a two-dose series, NACI recommends providing a third dose, ideally of an mRNA vaccine — but the committee stressed this should not be considered a “booster,” the report added.