Seems Italy are doing something interesting with their vaccines
People in Italy who have already had Covid-19 will receive just one vaccine dose instead of the usual two, the Italian health ministry has announced.
The new policy applies to people who were infected with coronavirus between three and six months prior to a jab.
"A single dose of vaccine may be considered for individuals with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, symptomatic or asymptomatic", the ministry said.
Around 4.7 million doses have been administered in Italy so far. And 1.5 million in the country of 60 million people have received two doses.
France and Spain
introduced the same approach in the past month.
The medical thinking behind the policy is that people with a past infection have some immunity left over from the infection. The single vaccine dose would then act as a booster of that immunity.