COVID-19 vaccines

(booster doses)

Everyone 5 years and older can now book an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine. An additional booster dose, known as the fourth dose, is now available to people 30 years and older. This may be a fifth dose for some people. If you have had COVID-19, wait at least 3 months before getting your next dose.

An additional booster, or fourth dose, is recommended for people at increased risk of severe illness, to be given 3 months after their first booster dose.

This additional booster will be a fifth dose for people who are severely immunocompromised, have an underlying medical condition or disability.

You should get a fourth dose if you are:

  • 50 years or older

  • a resident of an aged care or disability care facility

  • severely immunocompromised (this will be a fifth dose)

  • Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and aged 50 years and older

  • 16 years or older and with a medical condition that increases the risk of severe COVID-19 illness (see the table below for expanded groups)

  • 16 years or older with disability with significant or complex health needs or multiple comorbidities which increase risk of poor outcome.

ATAGI has advised people aged 30 to 49 years old can receive a fourth dose if they choose.