Kuwait’s Emir dies, 995 new cases, Trump and Biden face off - The Daily Update


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On today's update, we have the latest coronavirus figures, the news of the death of Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah and the UAE recorded 24,000 coronavirus related offences in the first half of September.

Two workers at a testing centre have been caught giving negative test results for cash, Pakistan opens a UAE-funded road and Donald Trump and Joe Biden went head to head in the first presidential debate.

Faisal Salah joins us for what's trending including Tottenham, Priti Patel and Mariah Carey.

Sinopharm vaccine explained

The Sinopharm vaccine was created using techniques that have been around for decades. 

“This is an inactivated vaccine. Simply what it means is that the virus is taken, cultured and inactivated," said Dr Nawal Al Kaabi, chair of the UAE's National Covid-19 Clinical Management Committee.

"What is left is a skeleton of the virus so it looks like a virus, but it is not live."

This is then injected into the body.

"The body will recognise it and form antibodies but because it is inactive, we will need more than one dose. The body will not develop immunity with one dose," she said.

"You have to be exposed more than one time to what we call the antigen."

The vaccine should offer protection for at least months, but no one knows how long beyond that.

Dr Al Kaabi said early vaccine volunteers in China were given shots last spring and still have antibodies today.

“Since it is inactivated, it will not last forever," she said.

 

 

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