Estonian experts: Vaccination required 6 mos after recovering from COVID-19 2021-05-16 BNS/TBT Staff
TALLINN - The Estonian national expert committee on immunoprophylaxis recommends to vaccinate people who have recovered from COVID-19 at least six months after their recovery and continuously advises against combining different COVID-19 vaccines. The immunity received by recovering from COVID-19 lasts, according to various studies, for at least six months and on only rare occasions has the illness been contracted repeatedly. Thus the people who have recovered from the virus will not need to get vaccinated until six months later, and one dose will then be enough for boosting immunity, member of the expert committee Irja Lutsar said.
Estonia receives first batch of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine ANI | Updated: Feb 07, 2021 19:59 IST
Helsinki [Finland], February 7 (ANI/Sputnik): Estonia has received the first batch of the coronavirusvaccine developed by the UK-Swedish AstraZeneca pharmaceutical company along with Oxford University, the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs said on Sunday.
Estonia has so far secured 3.5 million doses of coronavirusvaccines from five developers Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV and CureVac. The first batch of AstraZeneca s coronavirusvaccine including 7,200 doses arrived in Estonia on Sunday. In February, a total of 40,500 doses will be delivered to Estonia, the ministry said in a statement.
The vaccine is designed for people under 70 years old and those who work on the frontline in the fields of education, internal security, as well as social sphere, the ministry added.