Covid-19 in UAE: Do vaccinated people need to quarantine?
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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 cannot be followed in the country without the approval of the regulatory authorities.
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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 phones from the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP), which informed them that their scheduled vaccination appointments for the first dose have been rescheduled.
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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 vaccines, each different in their construction.
Covid vaccine in UAE: Jab takers told to keep masks on
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Sinopharm Vaccine has efficacy rate close to 90%
Doctors in the UAE are advising residents to continue wearing their masks and maintain social distancing norms, despite being administered China’s Sinopharm vaccine.
Doctors are unsure whether Covid-19 vaccines will help contain the spread of the viral infection.
Abu Dhabi
rolled out the immunisation drive last Thursday and Dubai followed suit on Monday amid an overwhelming public response.
However, doctors have cautioned those who have received the jabs must be careful to protect those who are yet to be inoculated.