All vaccines are effective against Corona strains, says MOH

INA - Baghdad

Ministry of Health and Environment - MOH confirmed on Saturday, that all vaccines approved by the World Health Organization - WHO have proven effective against strains of the Corona virus in Iraq.

"The information approved by the WHO indicates that all vaccines in Iraq have proven effective against the currently active strains of the virus in Iraq,” said the spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Saif Al-Badr, to the Iraqi News Agency (INA).

Al-Badr explained that, "all existing vaccines in Iraq have proven effective if two doses of anti-Coronavirus vaccines are given,”

A study conducted by the British University of Oxford had reported that the protection provided by the two most widely used vaccines to combat the mutated Delta strain of the Corona virus, which is currently prevalent, weakens within three months.

Ministry of Health confirmed that the approved protocol is to give two doses of vaccines, "the approved protocol at the present time in most countries is to provide two doses of approved vaccines that have proven effective,” he added.

Al-Badr went in noting, "all scientific indicators confirmed that receiving two doses of approved vaccines provides and achieves very high protection and prevents infection with the Corona virus by 90-95%. In very few cases, the vaccinated person may be infected, but he will not need to be hospitalized,”

He stressed that "the ministry adopts the protocol in force at the present time and according to the recommendations of the World Health Organization," noting that "in the event of any change or update, this will be announced officially,”

Earlier, on (July 28, 2021), Pfizer confirmed that a third dose of the Pfizer / Biontech vaccine against Covid-19 can strongly enhance protection against the delta variant, other than the protection provided by the two basic doses.

Some countries have recently started to adopt the third dose of anti-Coronavirus vaccines.