England’s head of health says people will get views of COVID’s rise after a change of direction

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PHOTO FILE: The British Head of the National Health Service, Simon Stevens, will speak at a press conference on the chronic condition of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, at Downing Street in London, Britain 2 December, 2020. REUTERS / John Sibley / Amar

LONDON (Reuters) – The head of England’s National Health Service has reassured people to get their second COVID vaccine after some meetings were postponed to prioritize taking more original doses of the picture.

“People will get their second shots, whether it’s Pfizer or AstraZeneca,” Simon Stevens, chief executive of the National Health Service (NHS), told Reuters at a news conference about the change. in a guideline that delays second sightings for most people up to 12 weeks after the first dose.

He said reprocessing shots would mean twice as many people receiving the first dose of the vaccine over the next few weeks.

Reporting by William James and William Schomberg, written by Alistair Smout; edited by Michael Holden

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