According to local health officials, the doctor was admitted to the hospital on Saturday (2) and is being followed, but has no symptoms.
A doctor at Umberto I Hospital in Siracusa, who was vaccinated against the new Coronavirus
Sars-CoV-2 Six days earlier, he was detected with Kovid-19, Sicilian health officials said on Sunday (3).
Health professionals, whose identities have not been revealed, are the first to be vaccinated with vaccination in the country. Medicine pfizer
In partnership with the German laboratory BioNTech.
According to local health officials, the doctor was admitted to the hospital on Saturday (2) and is being followed, but has no symptoms. The hypothesis is that contamination is not correlated with the effectiveness of the vaccine, as it is suspected that the virus was incubated before vaccination.
Franco Locatelli, president of the Italian High Health Council, explained that the immunological protection against infection by the Saras-COV-2 virus “is completed only after the administration of the second dose of the Kovid-19 vaccine”.
“Scientific articles clearly state that even in clinical studies people were infected after the first dose, precisely because the immune response is not yet completely protective. And it is only after the second dose It does happen. This is one of the reasons for not abandoning. Responsible behavior after vaccination “, he warned.
Over the last few days, he had accompanied Palermo to administer immunizer supplements, along with the first group of people from the Syracuse medical team. Attention is now focused on all those who came in contact with the doctor, in which he was in the same bus during the visit and others he met during the vaccination procedures.
To date, there have been no other similar cases among health professionals in the region.
According to the Italian Medical Agency (AIFA), the Effectiveness of the vaccine
Presently a week after the second dose administered in Italy was demonstrated. “While it is plausible that vaccination protects against infection, vaccines and those in contact with them should continue to adopt Kovid-19 protective measures,” he concluded.
