Recovered patients should get the jab
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published : 20 May 2021 at 07:06
9 Virologist Yong Poovorawan shows a Covid-19 vaccine dose at Bamrasnadura Infectious Diseases Institute in Nonthaburi province on Feb 28. (Government House photo)
People can contract Covid-19 after recovering from it and they should be vaccinated, says virologist Yong Poovorawan.
In his Facebook, Dr Yong was responding to a question on whether a recovered Covid-19 patient should receive the vaccine.
The head of the Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology at Chulalongkorn University, Dr Yong said inoculation is needed to prevent a repeat of the infection in recovered patients.
Citing a study in Nature Medicine, Dr Yong said the vaccine should be administered three months after the initial infection. The immunity in recovered patients will decline after six months.
Nepal is seeing hospitals quickly filling up and running out of oxygen supplies. Health facilities are under pressure in Thailand, where 98 per cent of new cases are from a more infectious strain of the pathogen, while some island nations in the Pacific Ocean are facing their first Covid waves. Although nowhere close to India s population or flare-up in scope, the reported spikes in these handful of nations have been far steeper, signalling the potential dangers of an uncontrolled spread. The resurgence – and first-time outbreaks in some places that largely avoided the scourge last year – heightens the urgency of delivering vaccine supplies to poorer, less influential countries and averting a protracted pandemic.
(May 4): It’s not just India. Fierce new Covid-19 waves are enveloping other developing countries across the world, placing severe strain on their health-care systems and prompting appeals for help.
Nations ranging from Laos to Thailand in Southeast Asia, and those bordering India such as Bhutan and Nepal, have been reporting significant surges in infections in the past few weeks. The increase is mainly because of more contagious virus variants, though complacency and lack of resources to contain the spread have also been cited as reasons.
In Laos last week, the health minister sought medical equipment, supplies and treatment, as cases jumped more than 200-fold in a month. Nepal is seeing hospitals quickly filling up and running out of oxygen supplies. Health facilities are under pressure in Thailand, where 98% of new cases are from a more infectious strain of the pathogen, while some island nations in the Pacific Ocean are facing their first Covid waves.
May 4, 2021
Fierce new COVID-19 waves are enveloping developing countries across the world, placing severe strain on their health-care systems and prompting appeals for help.
From Laos and Thailand, in Southeast Asia, to those bordering India such as Bhutan and Nepal, nations have been reporting significant surges in infections in the past few weeks.
The increase is mainly because of more contagious virus variants, though complacency and lack of resources to contain the spread have also been cited.
In Laos last week, the health minister sought medical equipment, supplies and treatment, as cases jumped more than two-hundredfold in a month. Nepal is seeing hospitals quickly filling up and running out of oxygen supplies.
BANGALORE (BLOOMBERG) - It s not just India. Fierce new Covid-19 waves are enveloping other developing countries across the world, placing severe strain on their health-care systems and prompting appeals for help.
Nations ranging from Laos to Thailand in South-east Asia, and those bordering India such as Bhutan and Nepal, have been reporting significant surges in infections in the past few weeks. The increase is mainly because of more contagious virus variants, though complacency and lack of resources to contain the spread have also been cited as reasons.
In Laos last week, the health minister sought medical equipment, supplies and treatment, as cases jumped more than 200-fold in a month.