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Positivity rate for Covid-19 in SVG trending downwards - Official

Maxine Glasgow- Cottle Social Share In the first 15 days of February, St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) was able to record a COVID-19 positivity rate below the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended threshold of 5 per cent, on at least four occasions. The John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health defines the positivity rate as being the percentage of all coronavirus tests performed that are positive. A higher percentage suggests higher transmission and that there are likely more people with COVID-19 in the community who haven’t been tested yet. It also serves as an indication to how widespread infection is in the area where testing occurs and “whether levels of testing are keeping up with levels of disease transmission”.

How do vaccines work? Doctors explain amid COVID-19 jab fears

How do vaccines work? Doctors explain amid COVID-19 jab fears 1399 ); Doctors disproved misconceptions about COVID-19 vaccines amid the proliferation of online rumors that discourage the public from getting inoculated. With the expected arrival of COVID-19 vaccine this month, the fear of vaccination still runs high among Filipinos online due to trust issues with the country’s health system and other misleading information online. So far, the vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech, which boasts a 95% efficacy rate, and by Oxford- AstraZeneca, which has 70% efficacy rate on average, are the ones approved for emergency use by the country’s Food and Drug Administration.

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