Please encourage your relatives who are at high risk to get vaccinated - Dr Sukabula

The Medical Administrator in Melbourne Australia, Dr Qalo Sukabula is calling on people who have relatives who are at high risk or have existing medical conditions to get vaccinated.

Doctor Sukabula highlighted this while speaking on the Bula Ko Lau facebook live iTaukei language session.

He says these are people who have high blood pressure, heart problems, asthma and diabetes.

Doctor Sukabula says these are people who are questioning whether to get vaccinated or not and there is some sort of hesitation.

He says they should be the first ones to get vaccinated as they can be severely affected or even die if they have COVID-19.

Dr Sukabula says it has been scientifically proven that the vaccines being used to counter the COVID-19 virus is working.

He says this is based on the Journal of the American Medical Association that was reported in March this year.

Dr Sukabula says from the investigative study that was done from the 1st of January, 2020 to the 21st of August 2020, 3.2 million Americans were tested using blood testing to determine how many had the virus.

He says from the 3.2 million people tested, around 378,000 tested positive and after the first month, those that tested positive were tested again and the result showed that only 11.3 percent of that number still had the virus.

He adds another test was conducted in the second and third month and the number reduced from 11.3 percent to 0.3 percent.

The Medical Administrator says this shows the antibodies in our body is fighting the virus, the memory cells of our immune system knows that the COVID virus is the enemy and the vaccine is working.

Dr Sukabula says this report is been used by many scientific communities around the world as their baseline to show that the vaccines being used is working.

He says many people will know that the US has been badly hit with the pandemic and they have a lot of data and information and also have done many investigations and scientific studies about vaccines and the virus.