Published on: Saturday, April 17, 2021
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Kuala Lumpur: The Covid-19 vaccines currently being used in the country are still effective in protecting the recipients against the UK B.1.1.7 and South African B.1.351 variants, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba (pic).
However, he said the Ministry of Health (MOH) was still awaiting reports from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) relating to the effects of the vaccines against the two variants.
“We found that the existing vaccines that have been used so far were capable of fighting (the virus) and giving protection to the recipients. But we are also awaiting reports from the WHO and CDC relating to the effects (of the vaccines) and whether the two variants could cause the vaccine to be ineffective.”
Florida’s Space Coast ready to get back to work, restart the cruise industry
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Bringing cruising back to Port Canaveral is essential to our destination’s post-pandemic recovery and the local Space Coast economy. PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. (PRWEB) April 16, 2021 Florida’s Space Coast, home to Port Canaveral the second busiest cruise port in the world, has been slow to recover from its recent cruise-related tourism losses.
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PUTRAJAYA: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has proposed the interstate travel for the upcoming Hari Raya celebrations be postponed as the Covid-19 situation in the country is still worrying.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba said the proposal was also following complaints and appeals from various quarters for the government to postpone the lifting of the interstate travel ban.
“As we all know, most states are currently under conditional movement control order and recovery MCO until April 28.
“As daily cases are still rising and not yet stable, this interstate travel needs to be postponed. The vaccination programme (National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme) is also still ongoing, ” he told a press conference after launching a book entitled Malaysia Health Sector Response to Covid-19: Perspectives from the Field at his office here yesterday.
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Shannon Kelly, 25, of Tabernacle, contracted COVID-19 nearly a month after receiving the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine.
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Shannon Kelly tried to catch her breath, but her hacking cough wouldn’t allow it.
”I had every single symptom except for a fever,” she said. “I mean, I have shortness of breath. I’ve been in bed. I’ve been sleeping. My cough is terrible.”
The normally healthy 25-year-old struggled to speak Tuesday from her bedroom at her parents’ home in Tabernacle. After being sick for about a week, Kelly learned on April 10 that she has COVID-19.