Vaccine experts defend UK decision to delay second Pfizer Covid jab

Medics told they risk undermining public confidence by querying policy of three-month gap between doses

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Leading vaccine experts have backed the government's decision to delay the second dose for up to three months, after doctors warned that the strategy was proving ever-more difficult to justify".

The British Medical Association (BMA), which represents doctors, has suggested that the UK has become increasingly isolated internationally" by deciding that the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine can be delayed, and called for a maximum delay of six weeks. However, several prominent scientists backed the government's plan to maximise the number of people receiving their first dose.