The committee further suggested that the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine be administered four weeks or more after the primary AstraZeneca jab, which is shorter than the nine or more weeks that the committee advises between two AstraZeneca vaccine shots, press agency ANI reported.
This announcement made Germany one among the primary countries to recommend mixing doses, whilst a recent study by the University of Oxford revealed that alternating doses of AstraZeneca vaccine and Pfizer-BioNTech generate more “robust immune responses” against coronavirus.
In June, German Chancellor Angela Merkel took Moderna as her second jab after getting inoculated with the AstraZeneca shot as her first, CNN reported.
Recently, Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunisation (NACI) stated that an mRNA vaccine is now preferred because the second Covid-19 shot for those people that were administered the AstraZeneca or Covishield vaccine dose the primary time, the CNN report added.
On Friday morning, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also received Moderna as his second Covid-19 dose after getting AstraZeneca jab for the primary .
Discussions on the efficacy of blending two Covid-19 vaccines comes amid the planet Health Organisation (WHO) informing on Thursday that the amount of coronavirus cases in Europe shot up by 10 per cent last week. during a statement, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe said that “increased mixing, travel, gathering and easing of social restrictions” contributed to the increase in cases.
He added that the upward trend of cases – which occurred after a 10-week decline in 53 member states of the WHO European region – is occurring at a time when infections thanks to the Delta variant of coronavirus is fast spreading.
