Vaccination with Moderna's COVID-19 drug. File photoBERLIN, 18 Aug The Standing Commission for Vaccination (STIKO) at the Robert Koch Institute recommended a fourth COVID-19 vaccination (second booster) to all persons aged 60 to 69 years, as well as persons older than five years of age with comorbidities that can lead to a more severe course of the disease. The purpose of these measures is «to protect especially vulnerable individuals from severe cases of COVID-19 and death caused by COVID-19,» STIKO said in a statement published on the institute's website . Previously, the commission recommended a second revaccination only for people over 70 years old living in nursing homes, as well as employees of medical institutions and people over five years old with reduced immunity. Earlier, the head of the German Ministry of Health, Karl Lauterbach, said that, according to the project of the German Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Justice, from October, persons, those who have received three vaccinations against COVID-19 will have to be vaccinated for the fourth time, that is, to make a second booster, provided that the last time they received the vaccine was more than three months ago. Lauterbach himself had been ill with coronavirus in early August, according to the German Ministry of Health, he was vaccinated against coronavirus four times (two shots and two boosters).
