MINISTER of Health Sylvia Masebo has disclosed that Zambia will begin to administer COVID-19 booster vaccines on December 27 to people who received the primary vaccination. And Masebo has revealed that the country will begin to administer the Pfizer vaccine in children from 12 years upwards. Meanwhile, the country has in the last 24 hours recorded 3,380 new COVID-19 cases out of 225,260 tests conducted, and three deaths. Giving an update on the COVID-19 situation in the country, Thursday, Masebo said the booster vaccines would be administered at two months after vaccination for those who received Johnson and Johnson and at six months after full vaccination for those who received Astra Zeneca, Sinopharm, Pfizer and Moderna. “I wish to inform...

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