Italian doctor confirmed six days after being vaccinated… “It will still be right again”

In Italy, after the first vaccination of Pfizer-Bioentech’s novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) vaccine, there was a case that was confirmed as Corona 19.

According to Italian local media on the 3rd (local time), a doctor working at a hospital in Siracusa, a city in Sicily, was vaccinated with Pfizer vaccine on the 28th of last month and was confirmed for Corona 19 on the 2nd of the 6th. Health authorities are conducting epidemiological investigations to determine the exact route of infection. Health authorities explained that there is a high possibility that they were already asymptomatic before vaccination, but even if they are infected after vaccination, there is no problem with the efficacy of the vaccine.

Franco Rocatelli, chairman of the Italian Health Advisory Committee, said, “In clinical trials, cases of infection after one vaccination were reported,” he said. “This is why we shouldn’t be relieved just because we got a vaccine.”

The doctor also showed strong willingness to vaccination against the second vaccine. “It will remind again that the vaccine is the only chance to win the battle against the virus,” he said.

Earlier, on the 29th of last month, a nurse in the United States received a Pfizer vaccine and suffered chills and muscle pain, and was tested positive for Corona 19 within 6 days. Even at the time, many infectious disease experts advised that social distancing, wearing masks, and personal hygiene should be thoroughly observed, saying that immunity does not occur immediately after vaccination.

Italy, along with EU member states, started vaccination on the 27th of last month. By the 3rd, about 100,000 people had completed the vaccination. On this day, 14,000 new confirmed cases and 340 deaths occurred. The cumulative confirmed cases were 2.155,000 and the deaths were 75,000.

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