The risk of being admitted to hospital with Covid-19 falls dramatically in the weeks after vaccination, showing that jabs are working better than we could have possibly have imagined, an official study has found.
Data covering a fifth of admissions during the winter wave show that only 32 people were admitted to hospital more than three weeks after being vaccinated.
Figures from India suggest that fears the countrys variant might have mutations that help it significantly evade the vaccine are unfounded. The B 1.617 variant is causing a surge in cases in India and travel from the country to Britain has been banned from 4am tomorrow in an attempt to stop its spread.
Balram Bhargava, director-general at the Indian Council of Medical Research, said that