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Dubai: Are you a victim of White Coat Syndrome? The condition seems to have received renewed focus during the pandemic when a number of UAE residents have reported a spike in their blood pressure during a visit to the hospital or primary health-care centre for either a PCR test or for their vaccination jab. Dr Dirar Abdallah, Chair of Medicine and Consultant of Internal Medicine at Prime Hospital, said: “White Coat Hypertension (WCH) or White Coat Syndrome (WCS) are conditions that have been there for a long time and have been diagnosed as a disorder in which patients develop high blood pre...

UAE Covid-19 vaccine: Active coronavirus cases down Nandini Sircar/Dubai Wam Healthcare professionals note that the country’s robust vaccination drive has been instrumental in keeping the numbers in check. With the number of active Covid-19 cases shrinking by more than 8,000 in the last 10 days, doctors are thanking the UAE Government for its strategic planning to vaccinate the population. The cases recorded on February 10 were 19,133 as opposed to active registered cases this Saturday, at 11,054. Listen to this story and more on 8@8 with David Light Healthcare professionals note that the c...

Covid-19 in UAE: Do vaccinated people need to quarantine? Nandini Sircar/Dubai Wam Regulatory authorities in the UAE need to take the call, say doctors. Quarantine is recommended for healthy people who have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, as it helps to keep the contagion at bay, UAE doctors have said. They were reacting to the United States’s Centres for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention's announcement that people who have received the vaccine against Covid-19 do not need to quarantine if they are exposed to the coronavirus. Doctors in the UAE said the announcement ca...

UAE Covid vaccine: Residents receive second dose as scheduled dhanusha@khaleejtimes.com Filed on February 8, 2021 KT Photo: Ryan Lim Studies are ongoing about how much a delay in receiving booster doses would affect vaccine efficacy. A day after the UAE announced that it would temporarily provide the Covid-19 vaccine only to senior citizens, people with chronic diseases and determination, a majority of the beneficiaries scheduled to take the booster dose of the jab received them without a hitch on Monday. Some UAE residents have received text message notifications on their mobile ...

SHARE Vaccines from different manufacturers should not be combined, doctors in the UAE said in response to UK trials giving people two different jabs in exceptional circumstances. A mix-and-match approach has been considered in the UK to help manage limited supplies and reach as many people as possible with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and the alternative Oxford/AstraZenica jab. It’s advisable people avoid mixing vaccines until we have done clinical trials Dr Adil Sajwani That approach has been rejected in the UAE, where doctors only have access to the Chinese made Sinopharm and Pfizer vacci...