Several fully vaccinated nursing home residents have been diagnosed with COVID-19. The National Institute of Public Health (FHI) says they are probably infected by the South African or Brazilian variant.
“It is expected that some test positive (for coronavirus) even after they have been vaccinated. It is not entirely surprising that we also have some infection among people who have been vaccinated,” department director Line Vold at the FHI told newspaper VG on Friday.
Corona infection has been confirmed in a total of 14 fully vaccinated nursing home residents in Sandnes and Ullensaker.
They have all received the vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech. In addition, a number of employees and close contacts have been infected, but many of these are unvaccinated.
Outbreak investigation
The FHI is assisting the nursing home in Ullensaker and the municipal supervisor to investigate the outbreak.
“We are collecting information about both patients and others who have tested positive,” Vold added.
Vold says it is likely that the cases are connected to the South African or Brazilian virus variant. Several screening tests have been performed, and the samples will be sequenced to determine the variant in question.
“Pfizer itself reports that the vaccine should also have a good effect on these variants. Questions have been raised about whether there is a worse effect of vaccines on these variants because they have many changes on the surface that these vaccines aim at,” Vold told the newspaper.
She added that the issue is being investigated everywhere but that the vaccines should mostly be good against the variants.
Source: © NTB Scanpix / #Norway Today / #NorwayTodayNews
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