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WHO warns against mixing and matching Covid vaccines
Key Worker Mark Reid from North Shields receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the International Centre for Life in Newcastle upon Tyne January 9, 2021. u00e2u20acu201d AFP pic

GENEVA, July 12 — The World Health Organisation’s chief scientist today advised against people mixing and matching Covid-19 vaccines from different manufacturers, calling it a "dangerous trend” since there was little data available about the health impact.

"It’s a little bit of a dangerous trend here. We are in a data-free, evidence-free zone as far as mix and match,” Soumya Swaminathan told an online briefing.

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"It will be a chaotic situation in countries if citizens start deciding when and who will be taking a second, a third and a fourth dose.” — Reuters

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