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| Residents receive a dose of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at FilOil Flying V Center in San Juan City on July 21, 2021.(Photo by=Boy Santos/ The Star) |
[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] MANILA — New details came to light on the country’s Delta variant cases on Monday, as the Department of Health reported that nine of those infected had already been vaccinated for COVID-19, PhilStar reported. Authorities on Sunday reported 55 additional cases of the highly transmissible variant, with the overall count since climbing to 119.
DOH said it is still verifying the vaccination status of most of the cases, or 86 of the total. But it added that four of the 119 are already complete with their two doses. Five, meanwhile, had received their initial shot. Of those fully inoculated, three had mild COVID-19 while the last was asymptomatic. Among those with the first dose, three were also mild cases and two did not show symptoms. At least 24 Delta variant cases were unvaccinated, the DOH added. Two of the confirmed deaths also did not receive the jabs. Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire in a briefing stressed that vaccines continue to work against COVID-19 and its variants.
“When we look at infections in hospitals today compared to before,” she said in Filipino, “the number of health workers infected has gone down and those hospitalized are unvaccinated.” This month, DOH said the Department of Science and Technology would study breakthrough infections among persons complete with their COVID-19 jabs.
