Halland, a county just south of Gotheburg (Göteborg) on the west coast of Sweden, isn’t pulling any punches: persons under 65 won’t be vaccinated until August, SVT reports.
The plan was that most everyone was going to get the first dose sometime in April and that everyone would have gotten the second dose by midsummer – late June . However, the latest with the internationally unpopular but at least local vaccine, from half-Swedish Astra Zeneca, is that the second dose needs a ten-week interval from the first dose. Which pushes the second dose date weeks later, in August.
It was unclear how many actually believed the original prediction, but for some it is undoubtedly a gut punch. It also leaves other counties’ residents wondering how much their representatives’ promises are worth. Time to revisit those summer travel plans – again.