28 March 2022 - ATAGI have provided recommendations on a winter booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine to increase vaccine protection before winter for specified population groups who are at greatest risk of severe illness from COVID-19 and who have received their primary vaccination course and first booster dose.

These groups are:

• Adults aged 65 years and older
• Residents of aged care or disability care facilities
• People aged 16 years and older with severe immunocompromise (as defined in the ATAGI statement on the use of a 3rd primary dose of COVID-19 vaccine in individuals who are severely immunocompromised)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50 years and older

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