'You will be given three opportunities - the original appointment plus two more appointments,' says the government.
Over 7 million people have received their first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine and over 4 million people have received their second doseMore than 7-million people have received their first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine and over 4-million people have received their second dose, according to theThe interval between the first and second dose is 42 days.
“Your record of registration remains in the system but it will not know if you are on leave, away, ill-disposed or have died. So it waits for you to make contact.”, the second shot of the two-dose vaccines is essential for reaching full immunity against Covid-19. WHO scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan stressed that if one misses the second dose or if it's delayed by a day or a week, it's important to get it as soon as possible.
“It's important to go back and get that second dose because the first dose actually presents this new antigen to the immune system to prime it. “And the second dose is the one that really gives a boost to the immune system so that the antibody response as well as T cell-mediated response are very strong and they also develop a memory response, which then lasts for a long time, so that when the body sees this antigen again, this virus protein again, it knows that it needs to react quickly.”
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