New Brunswick lowers minimum age for second COVID-19 booster to 18 amid Omicron variant concerns

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New Brunswick lowers minimum age for second COVID-19 booster to 18 amid Omicron variant concerns
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New Brunswick health officials say residents 18 and over can obtain a second booster of COVID-19 vaccine if at least five months have passed since their third shot

Health officials in New Brunswick are lowering the minimum age of eligibility for second COVID-19 boosters to 18 from 50.vaccine if at least five months have passed since their third shot.

The expanded eligibility comes as officials are warning that there are signs New Brunswick is at the start of a period of heightened virus activity. Chief medical officer of health Dr. Jennifer Russell says the number of daily COVID-19 cases in the province is increasing, adding that new cases involve the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of the Omicron mutation.

Those two variants are causing the number of daily cases to rise in other parts of the country, including Quebec and Ontario.

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