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The UK’s decision to delay 2nd vaccine doses could cause ‘greater risk’ from coronavirus variants, South Africa’s most senior vaccine expert suggests – Business Insider Australia
Delaying second doses of COVID-19 vaccines could put people at greater risk, especially from more infectious coronavirus variants, South Africa’s leading vaccine…

- The chair of the South African government’s vaccine advisory committee said Wednesday that “there is a greater risk” vulnerable people won’t be protected if they only get one dose of coronavirus vaccine.
- This is especially true for the two more contagious coronavirus variants first spotted in the UK and in South Africa, Professor Barry Schoub told Sky News.
- “[The variants are] more transmissible, and if your immunity is only half what it should be, that will increase the risk of transmission,”…
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