A vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub variants is pictured at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, US, Sept 8, 2022. (HANNAH BEIER / REUTERS)

Only a third of US adults polled said they either already received the updated shots or plan to get the booster as soon as possible, the Kaiser Family Foundation poll found

NEW YORK / MOSCOW / MAPUTO – Around two-thirds of adults in the United States do not plan to get updated COVID-19 booster shots soon, according to a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health policy nonprofit organization.

Only a third of adults polled said they either already received the updated shots or plan to get the booster as soon as possible, the poll found.

Around 18% said they would wait and see whether they would get the new booster shot, while 10% said they would only get it if it was required. Around 12% of adults surveyed said they would definitely not get the shot, while 27% said they were not eligible because they were not fully vaccinated.

Awareness of the new vaccines is low, with only half of adults surveyed saying they had heard a lot or some about the boosters, according to the Kaiser survey.

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Additionally, around 40% of fully vaccinated adults said they were not sure whether the new COVID-19 boosters are recommended for them. The CDC has recommended the shots for all fully vaccinated people aged 12 and older.

For the survey, KFF polled 1,534 adults from Sept 15 to Sept 26.

Mozambique

Mozambique's Health Minister Armindo Tiago said Friday that 765,000 teenagers across the country have received their first dose of vaccine against COVID-19 in the vaccination campaign that started on Tuesday.

Speaking at the official launch of the campaign in Maputo, the minister said the goal is to vaccinate 4,801,544 teenagers aged between 12 and 17 years old and the first round will last for two weeks.

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Russia

Russia registered 37,286 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its national tally to 20,985,756, the official monitoring and response center said Friday.

The national death toll increased by 106 to 387,269, while the number of recoveries grew by 61,225 to 20,040,988, the center said.