Costa Rican authorities are offering fourth doses – second boosts – of COVID-19 vaccines to immunocompromised people over the age of 50, the health ministry said Monday.
The fourth dose will be optional and can be given three months after the third, clarified Dr. Roberto Aroba, secretary of the ministry’s National Vaccination and Epidemiology Committee.
79% of the population of the Central American country has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and 41% have received a booster dose, according to official data.
“We have given over 10.6 million doses. We are part of the group of countries in the world where more than 85% of the population has received at least one dose of “vaccine”, stressed the outgoing president Carlos Alvarado in his last speech in this capacity.
Costa Rica has so far recorded 8,405 deaths due to complications of COVID-19 out of a total of 852,000 confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, which were released on Friday.
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