COVID-19: Flu and COVID-19 shots to be separated by 7 daysSEASONAL JABS: New advice says that flu vaccines can be administered between COVID-19 shots, while students are to require permission for Pfizer-BioNTechBy Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporterPublic health experts have recommended that COVID-19 vaccines and other immunizations — including the influenza vaccine — be administered at least seven days apart, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) said yesterday. Previously, the ministry had required people to complete two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine before receiving other vaccines, he said. Relatively few COVID-19 vaccines were administered over the past two days, said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the CECC. That translates to 42.8 percent of the population having received one or two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, or about 46.79 doses per 100 people, Chen said. A batch of about 930,000 Pfizer-BioNTech shots arrived in Taiwan yesterday morning.

Source: Taipei Times September 02, 2021 15:56 UTC