Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was vaccinated with the Chinese drug Sinopharm and contracted the coronavirus. Faisal Sultan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for National Health, Regulation and Coordination, spoke about this on his Twitter page.
He clarified that Khan passed a positive test for COVID-19 and self-isolated.
It is known that on March 18, the Prime Minister of Pakistan received an injection of the Chinese drug Sinopharm. This happened a day after the second batch of the vaccine in the amount of 500 thousand doses was delivered to the country.
The Ministry of Health reacted to the news, stressing that the vaccine does not start working immediately – immunity appears a few weeks after vaccination. The department insists that the situation with Khan should not shake faith in his ability to prevent coronavirus infection.
“Prime Minister Imran Khan had not fully completed the procedure at the time of infection. He received only the first dose of the drug, and it happened literally two days ago, ”the press service said in a message posted on Twitter. The message states that with such a short period of time, the policy would not have been saved by any of the existing vaccines, since antibodies are produced for two to three weeks, and even then only after a person has received both injections.
Earlier it was reported that the President of Tanzania, who denied the existence of a pandemic in the country, died of COVID-19. According to the Financial Times, the politician was sick with coronavirus and did not get in touch for a long time. RIA Novosti clarified that he was first treated in Congo, and then in India. A number of publications, which the agency refers to, confirm the information about the politician's serious illness.
