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Health
Andrew Brown

Boosters expanded to 12 to 15-year-olds

COVID-19 boosters are a step closer for 12- to 15-year-olds.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has granted provisional go-ahead for a Pfizer booster for the age group although final approval by the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation is still pending.

The medical regulator on Friday recommended that 12- to 15-year-olds receive a third shot six months after their first two regardless of which approved vaccine they had received as their primary course.

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