Health Minister Greg Hunt announces COVID vaccine boosters six months after second jab

Anita Beaumont
Updated October 22 2021 - 7:32am, first published 7:29am
Need a boost: Associate Professor Nathan Bartlett, of HMRI and the University of Newcastle, said the reopening of the state was coinciding with the waning immunity of our most vulnerable.
Need a boost: Associate Professor Nathan Bartlett, of HMRI and the University of Newcastle, said the reopening of the state was coinciding with the waning immunity of our most vulnerable.

THE elderly will begin receiving booster vaccines for COVID-19 within weeks as their immunity to the virus begins to wane, a viral immunologist says.

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Anita Beaumont

Anita Beaumont

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Anita Beaumont is a health and general news reporter at the Newcastle Herald.

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