Health Ministry begins administering COVID-19 Bivalent booster vaccine

AMMAN — The Ministry of Health on Tuesday began administering the booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, under the name Bivalent at vaccination centres throughout the Kingdom. 

Secretary-General of the Ministry of Health for Primary Health Care and Epidemiology Raed Shboul announced the arrival of 100,000 doses of the Bivalent vaccine, which is given as a single-shot booster dose to those who have previously received two doses of any COVID-19 vaccine, provided that the last dose was received at least six months prior to the booster shot. 

The ministry received a shipment of the vaccines as a donation from the French government to support the national vaccination campaign against COVID-19. 

Jordan’s national campaign has successfully reached a vaccination rate of approximately 75 per cent of the targeted population.

Shboul noted that the World Health Organisation recently classified a booster dose of the vaccine as a high priority for elderly individuals, young people with chronic diseases, people with weakened immune systems and frontline healthcare workers.

He explained that those who wish to receive the booster dose can go to a ministry-affiliated vaccination centre, the locations of which are regularly announced on the ministry’s social media pages, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.