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The drop-off in the effectiveness of current coronavirus vaccines against the new variants make strict international travel restrictions “absolutely essential.”
On
Newstalk Breakfast this morning, Trinity Immunology Professor Kingston Mills said the vaccines show a “significant drop-off in efficacy” when tested against the UK and South African variants.
He said the efficacy of the NovaVax jab, which he described as “probably the best one on the market,” dropped by 35% against the South African variant and 10% against the UK one.
Strict travel restrictions absolutely essential in face of new variants – Kingston Mills
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“That really tells us that the variants, particularly the South African one, are something we certainly don’t want to have in Ireland,” he said.