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New Delhi: A study by Public Health England shows for the first time that two doses of the COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective against the B.1.617.2 variant first identified in India. According to Public Health England (PHE), while the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was 88 per cent effective against symptomatic COVID-19 from the B1.617.2 variant of concern (VOC) two weeks after the second dose, the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was 60 per cent effective against the symptomatic disease caused by the B1.617.2 VOC.
However, the effectiveness from both types of vaccines was found to be only 33 per cent against the VOC found in India after just one dose of either jab.
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May 20, 2021 | 10:28 AM
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s health ministry said it is in talks with vaccine manufacturers such as Johnson and Johnson as it seeks alternatives to the AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot after shipment delays of the drug from India.
Kenya received a batch of AstraZeneca shots through vaccine sharing platform COVAX, which supplies doses to low-income countries and depends on India’s Serum Institute’s exports of AstraZeneca drugs.
“AstraZeneca Vaccine is unlikely to remain the vaccine of choice in Africa because of the delays in shipments currently being experienced from India,” Kenya’s health ministry said on Twitter, attributing the comments to health minister Mutahi Kagwe.
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