{"id":5422,"date":"2024-04-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2024-04-19T17:33:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T21:33:49","slug":"additional-covid-19-booster-now-available-for-at-risk-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/additional-covid-19-booster-now-available-for-at-risk-individuals\/","title":{"rendered":"Additional COVID-19 booster now available for at-risk individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Select residents can now receive an additional vaccine booster to protect against the current XBB.1.5 strain of COVID-19, one of several circulating in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Booster doses have been available since April&nbsp;8 and will remain available until June&nbsp;30, only to high-risk groups or individuals, provided it has been at least six months since their last vaccination for XBB.1.5 or their last COVID-19 infection, according to a Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) news release issued Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Those eligible include anyone aged 65 and older or any adult residing in a long-term care facility, personal care home or congregate living setting that also houses residents over 65 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone six months or older who is immunocompromised, due to immunosuppressive therapy or medical conditions, is also eligible.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning July&nbsp;1, eligibility for the XBB.1.5 vaccine will narrow to only immunocompromised children aged six months to four years of age, the release noted.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccinations are available at any clinics operated by the SHA, Indigenous Services Canada or Northern Inter-tribal Health Authority, or at participating pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 has accounted for 16 per cent of all respiratory related hospitalizations between March&nbsp;24 and April&nbsp;6, according to a recent report from the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Select residents can now receive an additional vaccine booster to protect against the current XBB.1.5 strain of COVID-19, one of several circulating in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Booster doses have been available since April&nbsp;8 and will remain available until June&nbsp;30, only to high-risk groups or individuals, provided it has been at least six months since their last vaccination for XBB.1.5 or their last COVID-19 infection, according to a Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) news release issued Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Those eligible include anyone aged 65 and older or any adult residing in a long-term care facility, personal care home or congregate living setting that also houses residents over 65 years of age.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/additional-covid-19-booster-now-available-for-at-risk-individuals\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Additional COVID-19 booster now available for at-risk individuals<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[96,18,309,14,362,828,320,15],"class_list":["post-5422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-covid-19","tag-pro-virus-policies","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-saskatchewan","tag-saskatchewan-health-authority","tag-vaccination","tag-vaccines","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5424,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5422\/revisions\/5424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}