“Currently, we do not have any such plans. We want to focus on the boosters,” health minister Khairy Jamaluddin said of the third dose.
Khairy was responding to a question, at a press conference, of whether the health ministry was eyeing second booster doses due to the spread of the Covid-19 Omicron variant.
Khairy had previously defended the ministry’s study on the need for a second Covid-19 booster dose for certain people, stating that this was done as the latest scientific findings emerge.
“For now, we know that a booster dose is needed… (and) we conduct studies from time to time as new scientific data emerges,” he said on Twitter.
“Importantly, our responses follow the new data. This is what is meant by an evidence-based response,” he said.
Yesterday, South Korea announced it would begin giving out fourth doses of Covid-19 vaccines by the end of the month and supply millions of additional home test kits to ease shortages amid a surge in Omicron infections.
The surge has pushed daily cases to record numbers, but widespread vaccination, with first booster shots received by more than 57% of the population of 52 million, has helped limit deaths and serious infections.
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