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The World Health Organization (WHO) today changed its recommendations for vaccines against COVID-19, suggesting that high-risk population groups receive an additional dose 12 months after the last booster, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.

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According to the WHO, older people are at high risk, as well as younger people who have other significant risk factors.

For them, the organization recommends an additional dose 6 or 12 months after the last dose.

The WHO has identified healthy children and young people as a "low priority" group and urged countries to consider factors such as disease burden before recommending vaccination for people in this category.

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Additional booster doses after the initial series of two doses and a booster are no longer routinely recommended for people at "moderate risk," according to the organization.

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