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40 healthcare workers in Malaysia who had both doses of vaccine test positive for COVID-19



Asia40 healthcare workers in Malaysia who had both doses of vaccine test positive for COVID-19
A medical staff member administers the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to a health personnel at Sunway Medical Center in Subang Jaya, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, on March 11, 2021. (Photo: Mohd RASFAN / AFP)
17 Apr 2021 02:39PM(Updated: 17 Apr 2021 03:30PM)
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KUALA LUMPUR: Forty healthcare workers in Malaysia have tested positive for COVID-19 despite completing both doses of the vaccination, said health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah on Saturday (Apr 17).
According to Dr Noor Hisham, nine of them were infected more than two weeks after having their second dose, while the other 31 workers were infected less than two weeks after getting the second jab.

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Another 142 healthcare workers were infected after the first dose, while 244 workers who contracted the disease were not inoculated.
"It is clear that we still can be infected after completion of vaccination," said Dr Noor Hisham in a Facebook post on Saturday. "No one is safe until everyone is safe."
However, he also said that vaccinated healthcare workers had less severe COVID-19 symptoms.
"Although vaccine gives a glimmer of hope to fight against COVID-19, make no mistake that we can relax all the public health measures after vaccination,” said Dr Noor Hisham.

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MORE THAN 438,000 VACCINATED
A total of 438,220 individuals have received both doses of their vaccine shots under the first phase of the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme as of Friday, said Health Minister Dr Adham Baba on Saturday.
During the same period, 687,176 individuals received the first dose, bringing the total number of COVID-19 doses administered in the country to 1,125,396.

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He said the five states with the highest number of recipients receiving the first dose were Selangor (97,416), followed by Kuala Lumpur (78,086), Sarawak (67,624), Johor (63,295) and Perak (56,295).
The five states with the highest number of recipients who had completed both doses so far were Selangor (63,126), followed by Perak (48,795), Sabah (43,033), Kuala Lumpur (38,642) and Sarawak (33,291).
Dr Adham said as of Friday, a total of 8,902,528 people, or 36.4 per cent of the population, had registered for the programme.
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[sweetiepie]

40 healthcare workers in Malaysia who had both doses of vaccine test positive for COVID-19

Another 142 healthcare workers were infected after the first dose, while 244 workers who contracted the disease were not inoculated.

Title says 40 healthcare workers infected then later say another 142 healthcare workers were infected KNN is it mean 40 or 142 or 40+142? KNN

 

[Leongsam]

Are they sick? If they aren't it means the vaccine is working.

 

[sweetiepie]

Title says 40 healthcare workers infected then later say another 142 healthcare workers were infected KNN is it mean 40 or 142 or 40+142? KNN

OK that means total is 182 infected KNN 40 is after 2nd dose while 142 was after 1st dose KNN

 

[sweetiepie]

Are they sick? If they aren't it means the vaccine is working.

According to leeport they are sick but less severe KNN means the vaccine not working KNN

However, he also said that vaccinated healthcare workers had less severe COVID-19 symptoms.

 

[Cottonmouth]

Title says 40 healthcare workers infected then later say another 142 healthcare workers were infected KNN is it mean 40 or 142 or 40+142? KNN

142 with first dose infected
40 with second dose infected.

182 total infected.

 

[laksaboy]

Thank you for making Pfizer CEO richer! And enjoy your post-vaccination return to 'normal life'.

The pandemic will not end until China gets regime changed, since it is a biological weapon developed by the Chinese military.

 

[A Singaporean]

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Vaccines don't work.

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A case of a 45-year-old PR who has already been vaccinated with 2 shots was infected with COVID-19, has caused concerns among members of the public in Singapore.

The PR’s parents had flown in from India on April 15. His father was diagnosed with COVID-19 on arrival and sent to hospital, while his mother was put under quarantine. The PR then sought permission to care for his mother at the quarantine facility and he was duly granted by the authorities to do so. Later, the PR was diagnosed with COVID-19 despite the fact that he had already been vaccinated.

Experts told the media that such post-vaccine infections, as well as reinfections for those who had been previously diagnosed with the disease, are to be expected.

Associate Professor Hsu Li Yang, an infectious diseases expert at NUS commented, “We expect an average of five out of 100 Pfizer- or Moderna-vaccinated persons to come down with symptomatic Covid-19 if exposed, and 10 per 100 vaccinated persons to come down with any Covid-19 infection (asymptomatic or symptomatic) based on the clinical trials and real-world data from Israel and the United States.”

He also said that viral mutations may also increase infections. In Singapore, the most commonly isolated variant in the past month is the B1617 “Indian” variant.

Professor Ooi Eng Eong of Duke-NUS Medical School said that most vaccines cannot “elicit immune response to levels sufficient to prevent infection”. But those who have received COVID-19 vaccines “around the world have also shown greatly reduced risk of hospitalization and death”.

“The evidence that vaccines work is now more and more abundant,” Prof Ooi emphasized. “Places with high vaccination rates, such as Israel, the United Kingdom and California, have all experienced sharp declines in Covid-19 cases. This is despite raging epidemics in these places at the start of the vaccination campaigns.”

Dr Asok Kurup, who chairs the Academy of Medicine’s Chapter of Infectious Disease Physicians and an infectious disease physician practising at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital questioned the efficacy of some vaccines given globally.

He said he has seen a few patients from India – the imported cases – who had received both doses of other types of Covid-19 vaccines “and yet developed full-blown disease with no antibody response”. But he added that the mRNA vaccines – like the Pfizer and Moderna ones used here – do protect against severe illness, and breakthrough infections are few and mild, or asymptomatic.

Wearing masks for the next couple of years
Professor Teo Yik Ying, dean of the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, warned that infections among people who have been vaccinated will surface from time to time.

“Unless we can assess an individual’s immunity to infection, the likelihood that we will have to remain masked up for a long time more is a very real one,” he said.

Agreeing, Prof Hsu added that vaccines will not return us to a pre-Covid-19 era in the next couple of years, where people went mask-free and had the freedom to travel and congregate.

However, the upside of wearing masks and observing social distancing have resulted in large drops in cases of other diseases like the hand, foot and mouth disease and influenza, Prof Hsu noted. Singapore has not had a single laboratory-confirmed influenza case since May last year.

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