Top Govt panel calls for 12-16 week gap between Covishield doses
New Delhi: Seeking to alter the interval between Serum Institue of India's Covid-19 vaccine doses, a government panel, National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) has called for increasing the gap between two doses of Covishield vaccine to 12-16 weeks.
Presently, the interval between two doses of Covishield is four to eight weeks.
The Central Government panel further recommended that pregnant women may be offered the choice to take any Covid-19 vaccine and that lactating women can be inoculated any time after delivery.
Prior to this in March, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) had increased the time interval between two doses of Covishield from 28 days to the revised protocol of 4-8 weeks in light of the recommendation of two expert groups namely the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) and National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVAC).
It had then said that "protection was enhanced if the second dose of Covishield was administered between six and eight weeks but not later than that".
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