Ministry announces booster shots, those eligible

AMMAN — The Ministry of Health on Saturday announced that starting Sunday, it will begin giving COVID-19 booster shots to those with a compromised immune system. اضافة اعلان

The third jab will be available from Sundays to Thursdays from 9am to 3pm. 

Those who wish to take a third jab must provide a proof that they have, or have undergone: 

- Cancer

- Transplant 

- Bone marrow transplant “during the past two years” and they must be on -immunosuppression medications 

- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) 

- Regularly take cortisone at high quantities or other immunosuppression medications

- Dialysis 

- Autoimmune diseases, including: rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus fever

- Multiple sclerosis

- Psoriasis

- Type 1 diabetes 

- Guillain-Barre syndrome

- A genetic disease, including Down syndrome or DiGeorge syndrome. 

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