Biden receives COVID booster, urges Americans to get vaccinated

US health officials are encouraging Americans to get booster jabs six months after their last vaccine dose.

US President Joe Biden has publicly received a COVID-19 booster jab, urging more Americans to get vaccinated amid a recent increase of infections linked in part to the highly contagious Delta variant.

Biden on Monday rejected criticism from the World Health Organization and other health experts, who have urged the administration to supply more vaccine doses to developing nations before providing third jabs to US citizens.

“We’re doing more than every other nation in the world combined,” Biden said as he got the booster inoculation. “We’re going to do our part.”