Post-Covid Limbo: No Access To Trains, Malls As Vax Mths Away

Scores of people who have recently recovered from Covid-19 are now facing the dilemma of vaccination. While science says they don’t need to get jabbed for three months at least, the state requires people to be fully vaccinated in order to board local trains or even enter a shopping mall.

- Sumitra Deb Roy

It means that a recovered person would have to wait a minimum of four to six months before they can get both the jabs and produce a vaccine certificate showing their eligibility for relaxations such as for train travel. The first three months being the waiting period for vaccination post recovery and the next one to three months being the interval between vaccine doses.

“A person who has recently recovered from the infection has the antibodies and is as good as being vaccinated,” said Dr Sunil Arora, professor of immunology at PGI Chandigarh and president of the Indian Immunology Society.