The Great Britain Autumn will offer citizens older than 50 years of introducing a third vaccination from COVID-19 in order to prevent the increase in morbidity. This is reported by the newspaper Times, reports TASS.
According to her, there are currently testing of two possible vaccine options under the guidance of the main sanitary doctor UK Chris Whitty. The first option implies the use of vaccines modified specifically to combat new strains of coronavirus. Another option may be vaccinating one of the three drugs already approved in the country: American company Pfizer / Biontech, Astrazeneca, Moderna.
Now the British make the vaccinations with these drugs. In order to make vaccinations to the maximum number of people in the shortest possible time, the interval between the introduction of two doses of the vaccine in the United Kingdom by decision of the government increased from three weeks to three months.
In April, it was reported that in the UK found a dangerous strain of coronavirus with double mutation. At the same time, the South African strain of coronavirus is distributed in Britain.