The Health Ministry announced on Thursday that children who are prone to get serious complications from the coronavirus due to a weak immune system or other underlying health concerns would now be eligible for a booster shot for the COVID vaccine on top of their first two doses.
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The booster would be administered to immunocompromised patients so long as three months have passed since their second dosage. Older age groups have already been declared eligible for the booster dosage, which is necessary in order to obtain a Green Pass that indicates a person is fully vaccinated under the current dosage regime.
Meanwhile, the Health Ministry has released new findings that point to children and adolescents vaccinated against COVID-19 being better protected against the Omicron variant than the unvaccinated.
The study, conducted in collaboration with the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer's Gertner Institute, found vaccines administered in the past few months to be effective against the ultra-contagious variant.
Children aged 5 to 11 who received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine were half as likely to be infected with Omicron than unvaccinated children, the study found.
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