Risk “Delta”, only vaccination avoids a new wave in September

Infectious Clinic Director Arben Vaj says Kosovo can also be affected by a new wave of COVID-19.

According to him, as the pandemic situation continues to be calm in July, it is no guarantee that this will continue the following months. So Vajaj points out that the best way to prevent the growth of people affected by the virus is inoculation.

Kosovo, like the entire earthly globe, is infected by the possibilities of presenting new waves with COVID infections. But the most successful and precise and necessary tool is the vaccine of the population. So the inoculation of the population from the 18 years of age is necessary in order that the other waves that come, or the mutations that develop the virus, we population have it protected. Although the beginning of July is going smoothly, it does not dare give us comfort and think that the danger is gone, we have to prepare as the wave is coming right now and our preparation is the use of the vaccine, so to vaccinate the population as quickly as possible”, Visaj said.

Infectologist Visaj said the option “Delta” spreads much faster and much easier.

“The genetic changes of viruses are known to occur, and becoming these mutations increases some virus ability, whether in terms of spread or in disproportionate, this virus appears to have this spread capacity, but as it would be, we should not be at the mercy of mutations that occur in the virus, but we must be vaccinated as the only powerful means that provides us a more prosperous autumn, said Vishaj.

Internist Driton Vela says a new wave of pandemic in Kosovo at the end of August or early September could be prevented only by a more massive vaccine than is currently happening.

He says that currently in Kosovo they have been vaccinated with a mere 19% dose of the adult population, and that figure according to him, is not enough to protect from the variant “Delta”.

There are about 19% of the adult population that has been vaccinated with a dose that is solid but insufficient to protect from the variant “Delta”, so people have to vaccinate, take the opportunity as quickly as possible so that we can create the so-called wall against the variant “> If we are called into the experiences of other states we can wait for the end of August or September as a period when the variant could begin to dominate “Delta” and see the consequences of”, he said.

Vela says mass vaculation is the key to protecting from the consequences that will bring infection with the variant “Delta”.

There's no record so far that it's more deadly, but there's data that is the easiest version of all variants from one person to the next. And that's the most important thing about a pandemic, the ability of a version to spread, and that's quite significant, and that's the worst possible thing if we don't care as a citizen and if there's no mass inoculation. The only way to protect yourself from the new wave, from the consequences of the new wave, is mass vaccination”, Vela said.

This week, even Health Minister Arben Vitita has warned of the danger of a wave from the “Delta” unless Kosovo citizens are vaccinated.

The “Delta”, originally identified in India in October 2020, by the World Health Organization, has been introduced to the group of disturbing variants of COVID-19.

In Kosovo the mass inoculation has started at the end of March, and since then over 250 thousand citizens have been vaccinated, until only 8 people have resulted positive with coronary in the last 24 hours. / KP/