Abu Dhabi (Special Report)
A booster dose of Sino Farm will be given 6 months after the second dose of the vaccine in the UAE, which has been approved. This booster dose will help fight the virus. Announcing this, Health Ministry spokeswoman Dr. Farida Al-Husseini said that priority would be given to senior citizens and residents and people suffering from chronic diseases as the move is part of the process of making the society as safe as possible. According to new research, the vaccine helps to prevent the disease for at least 6 months, so the booster dose is given to people who have a weakened immune system against the disease for a long time. Some people in the UAE were given an experimental booster dose that helped fight the changing forms of the virus. In the UAE, people over the age of 16 are being vaccinated and so far 74% of people have been vaccinated.