On Sunday, the country’s head of public health Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis (right) reiterated that the effectiveness of the second Pfizer vaccine dose wanes after six months – therefore making a booster necessary before disclosing the expanded booster push.
“The third dose brings us to the level of protection achieved by the second dose, when it was fresh. That means, people are 10 times more protected after the third vaccine dose”, she said.
Those eligible for the third shot can receive it provided at least five months have passed since their second jab.
So far two million people out of a population of 9.3 million have received three doses.
In yesterday’s Scottish Premiership match between Old Firm derby rivals, Rangers beat Celtic 1-0.
A big achievement for the former given that Covid had denied them their manager, Steven Gerrard; their captain, James Tavernier; and their top two goalkeepers, Allan McGregor and Jon McLaughlin. And still they found a way to win.
All that was needed was as BBC Scotland's Tom English said, “one piece of accuracy, one piece of hesitancy, one piece of barrelling belligerence from a defender-cum-attacker who wanted nothing more in those seconds than to get his head on a ball and put it in the net”. And it came in the sixty-sixth minute.
It shows that for all the progress the Celtic manager feels he has made, he must surely know that he has a way to go in rebuilding the team.
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