Despite getting the first jab of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine, over 400 people were still infected with the said illness, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
In a television interview last Wednesday, FDA chief Eric Domingo said 371 of these were infected even after getting their first Covid-19 shot.
Most of these infected were injected with Covid-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca (188) and Sinovac Biotech (173). Another 5 got vaccines made by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology and the remaining 5 with Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.
Domingo said of these first dose recipients, 22 died from Covid-19.
The FDA officials said there were also 35 “fully” inoculated individuals or those who got their two doses of vaccine, who were also infected.
These inoculated individuals got their second dose of jabs of vaccines from Sinovac (33), AstraZeneca (1), and Pfizer (1) vaccines.
“After the second dose, we observed that they can still get the disease, but they will have mild symptoms, will not be hospitalized, and die,” Domingo said.
He urged the public to get fully vaccinated to ensure their protection against Covid-19 even its other infectious variants.
“Based from our observations, we seem to be preventing a lot of infection among the vaccinated people. What is important is for them to complete the two doses because… we can really see an improved protection for those who got two doses,” Domingo said.
Based from its latest data, FDA said over 6.2 million people got at least their first shot of Covid-19 vaccines. Of which, over 2.1 million were able to receive their second dose.
The government is targeting to inoculated 50 to 70 million before the end of the year.