40 healthcare personnel in Malaysia who had both doses of vaccine test positive for COVID-19
18 April, 2021
Forty healthcare employees 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 these were infected a lot more than two weeks after having their second dose, while the other 31 personnel were infected significantly less than two weeks after obtaining the second jab.
Another 142 healthcare employees were infected following 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 staff had less extreme COVID-19 symptoms.
"Although vaccine gives a glimmer of desire to fight against COVID-19, make no mistake that people can relax all the public health measures after vaccination,” said Dr Noor Hisham.
A LOT MORE THAN 438,000 VACCINATED
A complete of 438,220 people have received both doses of their vaccine shots beneath the first phase of the National COVID-19 Immunisation Programme by Friday, said Health Minister Dr Adham Baba on Saturday.
Through the same period, 687,176 individuals received the first dose, bringing the full total number of COVID-19 doses administered in the united states to 1,125,396.
He said the five states with the best number of recipients acquiring the first dose were Selangor (97,416), accompanied 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 up to now were Selangor (63,126), followed by Perak (48,795), Sabah (43,033), Kuala Lumpur (38,642) and Sarawak (33,291).
Dr Adham said by Friday, a total of 8,902,528 people, or 36.4 per cent of the populace, had registered for the programme.
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