When Will the Second Dose Be Administered?

Natalia Largaespada Beer

Twelve weeks after getting your first jab, you are to return to a vaccination center to receive your second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. For those who were among the first to be inoculated, within the next two weeks, that second jab is due. Doctor Beer says that for those frontline healthcare workers, it is recommended that their second dose is taken now.

Dr. Natalia Largaespada Beer, Maternal & Child Health Technical Advisor, M.O.H.W.

“The second dose can be administered between eight weeks and twelve after given the first dose. For healthcare workers, we are stressing that they get their second dose now; eight weeks have passed since the first dose and we want to make sure that they are well protected, they are the persons who will be in contact if we should have an increase in cases of COVID-19. The rest of the population can wait until twelve weeks to get their second dose. But of course, if persons sixty years because some of them we did give them appoint for eight weeks and if they show up, they will get their second dose. But the recommendation is eight to twelve weeks. So we are asking those that are not sixty years and older if they can wait and little and then we prioritise healthcare workers and persons sixty years and older.”