Shorter interval to fight variants

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.