BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s vaccine advisory committee recommends a booster mRNA COVID-19 vaccination shot for people who were inoculated with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, it said on Thursday.
The committee, known as STIKO, said it had seen higher COVID-19 breakthrough infections and a comparatively low vaccine effectiveness against the Delta variant among people who had had a single shot of the J&J vaccine.
The committee also recommended booster shots for people over 70, regardless of which vaccine they had received.
(Reporting by Riham Alkousaa, editing by Thomas Escritt)
