SNA: People are saying that the Sinopharm and Covidshield are not effective on the population, is this true?
WR: No. I have followed debates on our vaccination programme and automatically, western countries administering the vaccines Moderna and Pfizer principally, and, to some extent, AstraZeneca, have claimed to have better vaccines thus the decline in their cases. But no, we cannot compare people who have been vaccinated to those who have not. So today there are people who have received the Sinopharm and Covidshield vaccinations, and we have to note that here in Seychelles, we gave Covidshield to people above 60 years old and Sinnopharm to people aged 18 to 60 years old.
We have seen, for instance, a situation at the old people's home where patients who had received only one dose of Covidshield were infected.
There were no lives lost and the patients have recuperated; this is the efficiency of the vaccine. And after this, when we take a look among the population of those between the ages of 18 to 60 who received Sinopharm. If the vaccine were not effective, people would have died when infected and there would have been many more people requiring hospitalisation.
But what we have seen and like I am saying, in this age group of people needing hospitalisation, 80 percent were not vaccinated. Again this reflects the efficiency of the vaccines. And we want to say that the two vaccines, Sinopharm and Covidshield AstraZeneca have served our population very well.
people may be infected, but they are not sick. Only a small number are. Isn’t this how the vaccine is supposed to help us. So what is happening is normal.
Seychelles is under the microscope because it is a success vaccination story whereas the Maldives, where the occurrence of Covid has doubled in the last week from about 500 to 1200 isn’t.
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http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/articles/14811/President+Ramkalawan+Seychelles+remains+a+safe+destination%2C+vaccination+campaign+effec