Covid-19: Rio anticipates a booster dose for travelers
The municipal secretary of Health of Rio, Daniel Soranz, said today (14), through a social network that those who are close to completing the five months since taking the second dose of the vaccine against covid-19 and want to anticipate the dose booster “you can go to a health unit and request vaccination, as we have vaccines available”.
The secretary responded via Twitter to a question about the proximity of the end-of-year festivities, such as Christmas and New Year's Eve, when many people are going to travel and spend their holidays outside of Rio. Soranz said “that's no problem. All you have to do is get to a health center and ask for a booster dose or a third dose”.
This afternoon, through a note, the Municipal Health Department of Rio informed that “advanced deadlines for the booster dose will be allowed in case of travel, health problems and other personal issues. At the moment, the city has enough doses to carry out anticipations and the rule is not to bureaucratize vaccination and contemplate as many users as possible”.
The note says that the recommendation of the Municipal Health Department is that people perform the booster dose (DR) after completing five months. Immunosuppressed people and people with severe chronic illnesses can take the booster dose at 28 days. Elderly and over 55 years of age should preferably follow the published vaccination schedule.
The secretariat informed that "it is also allowed, depending on availability of the vaccination point, the choice by the user of the vaccine for a booster dose, as well as for the first dose (D1) of those who have not yet been vaccinated".
Text translated using artificial intelligence.
