While India recommended increasing the gap between two doses of AstraZeneca, UK does the reverse fearing the indian variant.
The gap for second dose of Covid vaccine after the first jab shall be reduced in the United Kingdom amid concerns over the coronavirus variant identified in India, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced .

There shall be eight weeks of gap between doses, which was earlier 12 weeks, further added PM Johnson.
This was after India’s controversial decision to increase the gap from 6-8 weeks to 12 to 16 weeks . This is the largest gap between vaccine doses recommended so far .



A study conducted in Britain that found the COVID-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford University-AstraZeneca are highly effective in protecting elderly people from the disease after receiving just one shot.

Researchers at Public Health England say the respective two-dose vaccines are more than 80% effective at preventing people in their 80s from being hospitalized around three to four weeks after the first shot is administered.

Meanwhile In the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told The Washington Post Tuesday the United States will stick with the two-dose regimen of both the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Moderna vaccines.

A growing number of public health experts have urged government health officials to use millions of doses intended to be used as second shots instead be used as first doses, as millions of adult Americans have not been inoculated due to an acute shortage of vaccines.

But Dr. Fauci warned that switching to a single-dose strategy could leave people less protected and enable the growing number of variants to spread.

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