The government specifies that this is a person who received two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and who tested positive in the PCR test after seven days of isolation in a hotel. She is currently being treated at the Covid-19 unit of the Médipôle.
“This information clearly shows that all people who left septaine or quatorzaine before the deadline, thanks to legal remedies, and without testing, are potentially carriers of the virus: at a time when new remedies are underway, the government recalls that these decisions seriously weaken the airlock which has kept its population safe from Covid-19 since the start of the health crisis. “
This positive case, although vaccinated with the two recommended doses, does not “does not question the need for everyone to be vaccinated to protect themselves from serious, even fatal forms of the disease and to limit the spread of the virus.“A vaccinated person can be an asymptomatic carrier of the virus and thus transmit it to others, even if it is, thanks to the vaccine, much less contagious.
“It is because of this potential contagiousness that a septaine is imposed on people vaccinated when they enter New Caledonia. The government therefore invites all Caledonians to be vaccinated as soon as possible in order to avoid dramatic situations – death. , saturation of hospitals – seen among our neighbors and friends in the Pacific over the past two weeks. “
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