COVID-19 booster vaccine
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COVID-19 booster vaccine advice

COVID-19 booster vaccine advice

To receive the best protection against serious illness or death from COVID-19, you should stay up to date with all vaccinations recommended for your age or individual health needs. Boosters are important to maintain this protection.

Booster doses are free for everyone.

 

Booster doses

You are eligible for a COVID-19 booster dose if you:

  • are 5 to 15, and:
    • are severely immunocompromised, or
    • have a disability with significant or complex health needs, or
    • have severe, complex, or multiple health conditions that increase the risk of severe COVID-19
  • are 16 years and older, and
  • completed your primary dose course of COVID-19 vaccination at least 3 months ago.

If you have had COVID-19 you should wait to be vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine for 3 months after your confirmed infection.

The date you had your last COVID-19 vaccine is on your COVID-19 digital certificate.

 

Second booster

An additional booster, or fourth dose, is recommended for people at increased risk of severe illness, to be given 3 months after their first booster dose.

This additional booster will be a fifth dose for people who are severely immunocompromised.

You should get a second booster if you are:

  • 50 years or older
  • 16 years or older and a resident of an aged care or disability care facility
  • 16 years or older and severely immunocompromised
  • Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and aged 50 years and older
  • 16 years or older with a medical condition that increases the risk of severe COVID-19 illness
  • 16 years or older with a disability.

ATAGI has advised people aged 30 to 49 years old can receive a second booster if they choose.

 

How to book your booster dose

Click here to book your booster dose at Main Street Medical. or contact us for more information.

 

Staying up to date

To be considered up to date with COVID-19 vaccination, you must have completed all the doses recommended for your age and health status.

Find out about how to stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines.

 

Safety of booster doses

Common, mild side effects following a booster dose look similar to the side effects following the first 2 doses.

See information about COVID-19 vaccine safety and side effects.