A booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines will soon be available for more New Brunswick residents.
Health-care workers and residents of First Nations communities can get an mRNA booster starting the week of Oct. 25.
Six months must have passed since their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
“It is important we continue to take steps to protect those working and living in situations where they may be vulnerable to the virus,” Dr. Jennifer Russell, the province’s chief medical officer of health, said in a news release Tuesday.
“Our health-care workers are a great example of this, as they have been on the front lines of this pandemic since it began.”
The province began rolling out booster doses to seniors in long-term care homes and other communal settings earlier in October.
Details on boosters for other groups will be announced in the coming weeks, according to the province.
