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Health

French authority recommends single COVID-19 shot for those previously infected

FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labelled with a "Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken October 30, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo

French health authority Haute Autorite de Sante recommended on Friday that only a single shot of COVID-19 vaccine should be administered to people who had been previously infected.

The HAS said in a statement that people previously infected retain an immune memory that calls for only a single dose.

"The single dose of vaccine will act as a reminder", the health authority added.

(Reporting by Geert De Clercq and Jean-Michel Belot; Writing by Matthieu Protard; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

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