PETALING JAYA: Reducing the dosing interval for AstraZeneca vaccines is needed to protect Malaysians better, health experts say, especially with variants posing a risk to the country’s mass vaccination programme.
Universiti Malaya epidemiologist Prof Datuk Dr Awang Bulgiba Awang Mahmud said shortening the dose interval may be needed due to the global prevalence of the Delta variant which threatens to undermine the countries’ road to recovery.
“At first, enabling maximum coverage of the population was used as a rationale for longer dose intervals in the UK to get the maximum number of people with at least some protection afforded by a single dose.