direct to your inboxFrontline medical staff treating Covid patients at Greater Manchester hospitals have been told they must wait 11 weeks for their second doses of the Pfizer vaccine.It was reported last month that the government intended to extend the period between jabs from three or four weeks to as many as 12 to maximise those receiving the first dose amid the rise of a mutant strain.This means the second dose of both the Oxford/AstraZeneca and the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines will be within three months of the first.However, amid warnings from Pfizer over a lack of evidence this time lag would give sufficient protection from the virus, frontline medics treating Covid patients had hoped that they would be exempt from the new protocol.