Vaccination: Belgium reopens the floodgates to administer the booster dose
On Saturday, the authorities acted and operationalized the principle of an additional dose for all adults in the country. 8 million people will pass through vaccination centers by spring.
By Sandra Durieux
THEhe covid-19 vaccination booster campaign is open to the entire population in Belgium, having started with immunocompromised people, those over 65, caregivers and, more recently, those who had received the dose single of Johnson and Johnson at least two months ago. Objective declared by the authorities: to administer an additional dose to less than 3 million people by the holidays just to register a little more intergenerational meetings. More than 1.4 million doses have already been administered since September. The experts of the task force hope to be able to reach the 530,000 doses administered per week: 50,000 in Brussels, 300,000 in Flanders, 170,000 in Wallonia and 3,300 in the German-speaking community. The regions will have to ramp up to return almost to their maximum vaccination capacity. At the start of the week, the different entities will present their plan to achieve their goals.
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