NACI to update COVID-19 booster use in face of Omicron variant
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The updated guidance from NACI comes after the federal government put in a request for new reccomendations in light of the Omicron variant.
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is set to release new guidance Friday morning on the use of COVID-19 vaccine boosters as public health faces down the threat of the Omicron variant.
The new variant came to light late last week, and has sparked tougher border measures around the world as the World Health Organization warns the high number of mutations could signal that it is more transmissible than previous strains.
NACI officials are expected to hold a media briefing at 11 a.m. ET.
The government issued an urgent request to the advisory committee for new directives on the eligibility criteria for boosters to protect Canadians against the new version of the virus.
“We know that Canadians are asking increasingly about whether they should receive boosters, and that question is obviously of greater importance now with the new variant,” Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said in a press conference Tuesday.
“We are explicitly asking NACI to come up quickly with a revised view on where and how and to whom these boosters should be administered.”
It was at the same press conference that ministers announced a series of strict new testing and isolation measures for travellers coming into Canada as part of an effort to make sure no one unwittingly imports cases of the new variant to Canada.
The government has also barred foreign nationals who recently transited through 10 African countries from entering.
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