The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) on Monday issued a correction in a statement made by Dr. Farida Al Hosani, Official Spokesperson of the Health Sector, at the UAE Government Media Briefing held on Sunday. During the briefing, Dr Al Hosani spoke about the developments related to variants of the COVID-19 virus and the percentage of infected cases admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for vaccinated and non-vaccinated people.

"The correction is that the highest percentage of cases admitted to ICU is for those who were not vaccinated (92 percent), while the percentage of those vaccinated was 8 percent," the ministry said in its statement. 

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