Queen will be silent on her 2nd injection
THE Queen will not announce when she has had her second Covid-19 jab to encourage people to accept the first vaccine they are offered.
Her Majesty, 94, said on Saturday she had been given her initial injection, alongside Prince Philip, 99, to send a “message of hope”.
Royal sources confirmed they will not go public over the timing of the second dose to avoid speculation about which vaccine she received.
They said: “The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh were clear they would wait their turn and accept any vaccine on advice of their doctors.”
Pfizer and BioNTech have both said their joint vaccine was tested on two doses three weeks apart and they have no data on a longer wait.
But the Oxford/AstraZeneca trials showed antibody levels nearly three times higher in participants who waited 12 weeks between doses, rather than fewer than 6 weeks.