The Department of Health released its guidelines for the second COVID-19 booster shot to the general population — excluding children with ages 5 to 17. | zacariansINQ
Before this, only frontline healthcare workers, senior citizens, and persons with comorbidities were allowed to get inoculated with the second booster dose.In its guidelines, the DOH said all healthy adults aged 18 and above may now receive their second booster shot — fourth dose all in all including the first two primary doses — after six months from their first booster.
“Pwede pa rin bakunahan kahit lampas na sa inirerekomendang agwat mula sa unang booster dose,” said DOH in its guidelines.
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