: Two vaccine doses needed for strong protection against Covid variant detected in India: FT report #IndiaNEWS A new study by the United Kingdom has found that two vaccine doses offer strong protection

Two vaccine doses needed for strong protection against Covid variant detected in India: FT report #IndiaNEWS
A new study by the United Kingdom has found that two vaccine doses offer strong protection against the variant of the coronavirus first detected in India, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. The UK government’s data showed that two doses offered 81% protection against the B.1.617.2 variant, while a single dose offered only 33%, the newspaper reported, quoting two unidentified officials who attended a meeting where these figures were presented. A double-dose regimen also offered 87% against the B.1.1.7 mutation detected in Kent in England, while a single dose provided 51%, according to the data. This shows that a single vaccine dose offers less protection against the mutant strain identified in India than it does against the variant detected in the UK. For its research, Public Health England took data from the Oxford-AstraZeneca and the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccines, according to the newspaper. Another study, a real world analysis, had shown that two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine proved to be around 90% effective against symptomatic disease.The Public Health England said in its weekly surveillance report on Thursday that the AstraZeneca vaccine was 89% effective after two doses, and 53% after the first shot. To understand the protection provided by the vaccine better, the effectiveness was also compared 4 to 13 days...Read more

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