The latest report by the Healthcare Ministry shows that 98 percent of the patients hospitalized with Covid-19 were unvaccinated and only two percent were fully vaccinated.

The vaccine is not surefire protection against infection – 32 percent of the nearly 70,000 people who tested positive between early August and mid December were vaccinated. But it protected well enough against serious health complications.

Of the 2,272 deaths in this period, 1,790 were unvaccinated.