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ARCHIVED - Spain advocates delaying booster jab for Covid positives to five months
Health authorities in Spain also recommend that children who have tested positive receive their second jab after 8 weeks
Following a decision last week by authorities in Spain to follow the EU’s lead in administering the booster Covid vaccine to all those aged over 18, the Public Health Commission has backtracked a little on Tuesday January 25 by recommending that adults who have previously been infected with coronavirus wait five months until receiving their third dose. The experts have also suggested that children aged between five and 11 years old who have previously been diagnosed with the virus only receive a single vaccine.
In the event that youngsters become infected after their first jab, the Commission now recommends that they receive their second shot eight weeks after diagnosis.
Initially, the general directors of health and the leaders of the autonomous communities agreed that the interval between infection and the third dose should be set at “a minimum of four weeks”; the new recommendation represents a significant about-turn by Public Health, after the decision to triple inoculate so early was widely deemed “absurd” by immunologists and virology experts in January.
“Current evidence shows that having a SARS-CoV-2 infection after having the complete primary vaccination schedule leads to the development of a more powerful and broader immune response in terms of neutralising other variants of the virus, compared to the immune response observed in people who only suffered infection or who only received two doses,” a ministry spokesperson stressed.
Thus, it is for this reason that the experts believe that the interval between the second and third dose should be set at a minimum of four weeks, but ideally, after five months have elapsed.
See also: How to get a Covid passport and How to book a vaccination or booster jab appointment in Spain
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