The study authors concluded that any of the four vaccines approved in the United Kingdom, after the first dose, conferred 55–70% protection against severe illness. After the introduction of the second dose, the effectiveness of the drug increases to 65–90%.
“By July 11, 2021, the first dose of vaccine in England received 61.8% [граждан], the second – 46.9%. According to the plan, the highest vaccination coverage is in the older age groups, “the report says.
The authors of the document indicate that thanks to vaccinations, almost 91% of the adult population in England have antibodies to COVID-19 (16.3% of them developed immunity after having had a coronavirus infection). Among citizens over 40 years old, more than 96% have antibodies.
The ministry estimates that the vaccination program “directly prevented more than 46.3 thousand hospitalizations, […] from 11 to 12.5 million cases of infection, as well as from 35.2 thousand to 38.6 thousand deaths. “
By data the American Johns Hopkins University, since the beginning of the pandemic in the UK, almost 5.5 million cases of COVID-19 infection have been confirmed, of which 129 thousand have been fatal. The population of the country is 66.7 million people.
Vaccination against coronavirus in the United Kingdom is carried out with drugs from Pfizer / BioNTech (from 8 December 2020), Oxford / AstraZeneca (from 4 January 2021) and Moderna (from 7 April). By data as of July 19, 82.4 million doses of vaccines were administered in the country (46.3 million people received the first dose, 36.1 million were fully vaccinated).
From 19 July in England removed most of the quarantine restrictionsin the rest of the UK – Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – they continue to operate.
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