NEW DELHI : A top health expert has said that the gap between the second dose of vaccine against coronavirus and the precautionary dose should be made six months for better immunity against the infection.

The Indian Government started administering the precautionary dose or the third dose of vaccine against the novel coronavirus for all adults across the nation.

However, the central government has determined the gap between the second dose and the precaution dose to be nine months. Dr Rajeev Jayadevan, co-chairman of the Indian Medical Association's (IMA) national task force on coronavirus said that the long gap between the second vaccine dose and the precautionary dose reduces the number of infections and severity of the disease.

Talking about his study on the gap between the second dose and precautionary dose, Dr Rajeev said, "As per our research, if a person is going for the third dose and he/she has very recently taken the second dose, then we found that it did not make any difference.

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