Two jabs of either vaccine give a similar level of protection against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant as they do for the Kent one.
However, both vaccines were only 33% effective against the Indian variant three weeks after the first dose. BBC News
See also:
- Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against the B.1.617.2 variant (open access preprint) Public Health England
- Covid: Parts of England to trial self-isolation support BBC News
- Covid: Sniffer dogs could bolster screening at airports BBC News
- Covid vaccine: 32 and 33-year-olds in England now invited to book BBC News
- India records 300,000 Covid deaths as pandemic rages BBC News
- Fewer than a THIRD of Brits say they 'completely' understand the current UK Covid lockdown rules The Daily Mail
- Covid cases in England may be on the rise, ONS data shows The Daily Mail
- Super-sniffer dogs detect Covid with 94 per cent accuracy, UK study suggests The Daily Telegraph
- Testing and tracing of sewage ramped up to tackle Covid variants The Daily Telegraph
- Scientists detect new coronavirus in pneumonia patients in Malaysia that has ‘likely made jump from animals’ The Independent
- NHS warns hospitals of fourth peak in Covid-19 cases at the end of the summer iNews
- Private hospitals provided average of seven Covid beds a day despite £2bn Government contracts iNews
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