Indonesia has reported the first cases of health care workers infected with Wuhan pneumonia (novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) after receiving two doses of vaccine, but local health authorities say the infected patients were diagnosed less than 14 days after receiving the vaccine, possibly because the vaccine has not yet fully worked.
The Jakarta Globe reports that Deden Den, head of the health ministry in Banten’s South Tangkalan municipality, said on 24 May that 15 health care workers and eight interns at a local hospital had been diagnosed recently, and that some of them had recently received their second dose of the vaccine, but he declined to say how many had completed both doses.
This is the first case in Indonesia where a health care worker has been diagnosed after two doses of the vaccine, but Daiden said the diagnosis was made less than 14 days after the vaccine was administered, so perhaps the vaccine has not yet taken full effect.
Indonesia has been administering the vaccine since Jan. 13, using the Sinovac vaccine from China, with the first batch targeting medical personnel.
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