"No Time To Lose": EU's Nod To 2nd Covid Booster Jab For People Over 60
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Coronavirus: ECDC director Andrea Ammon said they were "currently seeing increasing Covid-19 case notification rates and an increasing trend in hospital and ICU admissions and occupancy in several countries."
The EU's health and medicine agencies said Monday they were recommending a second booster shot of a Covid vaccine for people over 60 years old, as infections rise again.
"With cases and hospitalisations rising again as we enter the summer period, I urge everybody to get vaccinated and boosted as quickly as possible," Stella Kyriakides, the European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety said.
"There is no time to lose," she added in a statement issued by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the European Medicines Agency.
The agencies had already recommended a second booster, or a fourth dose, for people over the age of 80, since April.
