Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has insisted Thailand will not reimpose an immediate national lockdown despite concerns over the new coronavirus variant Omicron.
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.