All recent COVID-19 deaths in Qatar among unvaccinated: Senior health official
Date
1/14/2022 4:08:41 AM
(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Fazeena Saleem |
The Peninsula
Though the COVID-19 vaccine cannot prevent the infection it can save people from severe illness and all recent deaths in Qatar are unfortunately related to those who have not received any of the doses of the vaccine, said Head of Vaccination at the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Soha Al Bayat, yesterday.
She also said that there have been almost no ICU admissions among those who received booster dose.
“Recent scientific studies have shown that the third or the booster dose further enhances the immunity and can give up to 75% protection from mild to moderate disease. None of the recently dead patients had received any of the vaccine doses and majority of those in ICU either have not taken their vaccine or have only first and the second doses. All of this show the importance of taking the booster dose to further protect you at least from severe infection,” Dr. Al Bayat said in a video message.
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Dr. Al Bayat has answered some of the most common questions about the COVID-19 vaccine booster dose. Dr. Al Bayat emphasized that anyone who is 12 years or older and it has been six months at least since they took their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine are now eligible to take the third booster dose of the vaccine
The Ministry approved the administration of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster vaccines for children aged 12 to 15 years on January 9.
“Scientific studies have shown that the immunity obtained from the COVID-19 vaccines second dose start to decrease after six months. So this is why it is absolutely critical that people take their booster dose to further enhance and reac-tivate the level of immunity that they have,” said Dr. Soha.
“Taking the booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine will give you protection from mild to moderate infection. Yes you may still get infection but you may not need hospital care or admission,” she said.
So far more than 365,000 doses of COVID-19 booster have been given in Qatar and only mild to moderate side effects have been reported, according to Dr. Soha.
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