Fighting COVID-19, not an option, but a patriotic duty for Bahrain

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

A top official of the National Medical Task for Combating the Coronavirus pandemic warned yesterday that “commitment to action today is no longer an option, but a patriotic duty.”

Bahrain, Lt. Col. Dr Manaf Al Qahtani said, needs strong determination of all its people here in the next two weeks to bring down the coronavirus curve.

He also pointed out that the low infection rate after vaccination is a shot in the arm for the inoculation drive here, which, so far, has covered 48.6% of the total people eligible for vaccination.

He was speaking during a press conference held at the Crown Prince Center for Training and Medical Research by the National Taskforce to address the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

Manaf Al-Qahtani, an Infectious Disease Consultant & Microbiologist at the BDF Hospital and a member of the National Medical Taskforce for Combating the Coronavirus, confirmed that the Kingdom had witnessed only 2% Covid-19 infections post inoculations against 98% infections in non-vaccinated people.

The percentage of existing cases in vaccinated people who completed two weeks after taking their second jabs using vaccines by Pfizer-Biotech, Covishield-AstraZenka vaccine and the Sputnik ranged between 1% to 2%.