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UAE Ramadan: Covid-19 patients must consult doctors before fasting
Nandini Sircar & Dhannusha Gokulan/Dubai Filed on April 10, 2021 | Last updated on April 10, 2021 at 11.01 pm
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Covid-19 patients with moderate to severe symptoms must avoid fasting, doctors say.
Covid-19 patients must consult physicians before Ramadan fasting and only asymptomatic patients should undertake religious abstinence, doctors told Khaleej Times.
Ramadan in the UAE is likely to begin on April 13 and this year marks the second Holy Month amid a pandemic.
Dr Muhammed Shafeeq, specialist pulmonology at Aster Hospital, Al Qusais said, “Most religious authorities have always stated that if a person has problems with ill health, it is better to refrain from fasting.”
Covid vaccine in UAE: Immunity takes time to kick in after jab, say doctors
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People can be exposed to Covid right before being vaccinated, or right after, and there may not be time for the body to boost its defenses.
It takes time for vaccines to build up immunity, and the two authorised coronavirus vaccines in the country require two doses before the immunity to develop, UAE doctors have said.
Immunity does not kick in right away given the two doses both of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Sinopharm vaccines are administered several weeks apart, to train the body s immune system.