Boosting doses of her vaccine Pfizer and her Johnson & Johnson against coronavirus will offer the South Africa, while the Omicron mutation spreads causing an increase in the daily number of new infections, which approaching record levels.
Booster doses of the Pfizer vaccine will be available for those who have completed their vaccination six months ago, announced the Deputy Director General of the South African Health Service, Mr. Nicholas Crisp. The J&J boosters are already available for healthcare in clinical trials and will soon be available to the general public, he added.
South Africa announced more than 22,000 new cases of covid-19 yesterday Thursday (9/12), a record number of new infections for the fourth wave of the pandemic due mainly to the Omicron strain. However, this number remains lower than most of the 26,000 daily cases recorded in the third wave of the epidemic, which was mainly due to the Delta strain, according to the APE-MPE.
During the same press conference the Minister of Health of South Africa Joe Faala stated that there are positive indications from the first data coming from the hospitals, according to which the Omicron strain appears to cause mild illness.
THE Glenda Gray, chairman of the South African Medical Research Council, noted that most new treatments for patients with covid-19 involve the unvaccinated.
About Pfizer vaccine He said: “We observe that this vaccine retains its effectiveness. It may decrease a little, but we see the effectiveness in terms of hospitalization is maintained and that is encouraging. “

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