The data are based on the inoculation of more than 10 million people in Chile.
However, despite having vaccinated more than 70% of its population, the country seeing an increase in cases.
The CoronaVac vaccine is 66% effective at preventing symptomatic Covid-19 infection among fully vaccinated adults aged 16 years and older, according to a real-world study published on 7 July in
The more promising finding, however, was that the two-dose vaccine showed higher protection against hospitalisation (87.5%), ICU admission (90%); and death (86%) – a finding that is consistent with the results of Phase 2 trials of the vaccine, the researchers said.
Chile’s vaccination programme kicked off on 2 February 2021, and the study was conducted from February through May 2021. It evaluated the effect of the jab in approximately 10.2 million fully immunised Chileans.
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