Both doses can prevent COVID deaths - Prof. Malavige
According to a research, 95 percent of individuals who received two doses of the Sinopharm vaccine have developed antibodies similar to a naturally infected COVID 19 person, Sri Jayawardhanapura University’s Immunology and Molecular Sciences Department head Prof. Neelika Malavige said.
“No vaccine, be it AstraZeneca or Pfizer, can completely eliminate variants like the Delta virus, but it does prevent death,” she said. She said that all the vaccines are used to prevent deaths and that a large number of people in the country have been recieved the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine.
She further said that 99 percent of the reported cases in Britain were caused by the Delta virus, and that the success of the vaccination programme has reduced the number of deaths, despite the fact that 50,000 cases are reported from the country each day.
She said that the vaccination process in Sri Lanka is progressing very fast and even if the vaccine is given, there may be symptoms of covid but it will not be severe upto hospitalization.
source https://www.dailynews.lk/2021/08/23/local/257372/both-doses-can-prevent-covid-deaths-prof-malavige
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