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Delta variant blocking path to COVID-19 herd immunity | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis asahi.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from asahi.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A PCR test shows whether the novel coronavirus sampled is a variant. (Provided by the Ibaraki prefectural institute for health) About 90 percent of people fully inoculated by the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are well protected from variants of the novel coronavirus, having produced antibodies stimulated to better fight them off, Japanese researchers said on May 12. The vaccine is the only one currently available in Japan. A team of researchers at Yokohama City University reported the vaccine has a high efficacy against variants after analyzing how it protects against the original form of the virus and seven types of variants, including those believed to be highly contagious and can elude the immune system. ....
Before COVID-19, Japan 'lost' 2 decades in vaccine research : The Asahi Shimbun asahi.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from asahi.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.