Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah is pictured at a vaccination centre in Putrajaya March 17, 2021. — Picture by Shafwan ZaidonKUALA LUMPUR, March 17 — It is vital for the recipients of the Comirnaty vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech to take the second dose to significantly increase antibody production in order to efficiently gain long-term immunity against the virus.
“Based on the observation in clinical research, the efficacy of the Comirnaty vaccine will show from the 12th day after the dispensing of the first dose and the efficacy level will reach up to 89 per cent between the 14th and 21st day, which is the ideal time for the second dose to be dispensed,” he said in a statement here today.
Dr Noor Hisham said this to explain the vaccination process involving two doses of the Comirnaty vaccine.
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