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France’s Veran: sticking with decision to have 21-days gaps between two Pfizer shots – Metro US

France’s Veran: sticking with decision to have 21-days gaps between two Pfizer shots

FILE PHOTO: French Prime Minister Jean Castex holds a press
FILE PHOTO: French Prime Minister Jean Castex holds a press conference in Paris

PARIS (Reuters) – French Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Tuesday that he had decided to maintain to 21-28 days the gap between the injection of the first and the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19.

Veran told a news conference he made that choice out of caution, citing a lack of scientific evidence that extending the gap would be totally safe.

(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon, editing by Louise Heavens)