With the recent approval of a booster shot for the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine by the United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Guyana’s Minister of Health Dr Frank Anthony yesterday noted that authorities here are examining to possibility of administering same.
He made the disclosure during his daily COVID-19 update, where he was speaking on the country’s COVID-19 inoculation programme and noted that the single-dose vaccine is currently available at various sites across the country.
Reuters reported last week that the FDA gave authorisation for booster (additional) doses of the vaccine to be administered to sections of the United States population.
