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Kuwait City, 27th January 2021: On one infected Corona in Q8, those who took vaccine, iiQ8 No report of Corona infection among those who took vaccine in Kuwait No new Coronavirus infection was recorded among any person who received the vaccine in Kuwait. Quoting sources, local daily reported that the Ministry of Health had not detected any infections among those who received the vaccine, whether the first or second dose so far.   Sources explained that the effectiveness The Pfizer vaccine reaches 94 percent 7 days after receiving the second dose, while it reaches 52 percent 10 days after receiving the first dose. The person is not considered immune until 28 days after receiving the first dose as the recommended period between the two doses applied in Kuwait is 21 days.   The sources reiterated people who took the vaccines to continue the precautionary measures until the community immunity is attained. iiQ8 News On one infected Corona i…

Kuwait City, 27th January 2021: 35000 Vaccinated in Kuwait in a month, iiQ8, Covid-19 Vaccine 70% of health workers have received jabs for coronavirus Kuwait City: Since Kuwait launched its COVID-19 vaccination campaign a month ago, around 35,000 people have received the jab, local media reported. Currently, out of the four million citizens and residents that make up Kuwait’s population, only 0.875 per cent are vaccinated. Compared to its neighbouring GCC countries, Kuwait is the slowest country in terms of vaccination. Those that are being given priority are the elderly, people with chronic illnesses and frontline and health workers. As of Monday, around 70 per cent of health workers have received the vaccine. Kuwait so far is only administrating the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and has received three batches over the past month. The first batch, which arrived on December 23, contained 150,000 doses, enough to vaccinate 75,000 people. The second and third doses arriv…