China has not provided vaccine effectiveness results against the variant based on large-scale data in clinical trials or real-world use, nor offered detailed information from lab tests, but Chinese experts are urging people to get inoculated as soon as possible | |
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A health worker prepares a dose of Sinovac's CoronaVac coronavirus disease COVID-19 vaccine, during a mass vaccination program in Apodaca, on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico May 25, 2021 | AP What China has done? He said a booster shot following the two dose-based regimen could quickly elicit stronger and more durable antibody reaction against the Delta |
All severe cases are from unvaccinated people.
30So far, only about 592,000 Tunisians have received the two doses of vaccine in the country of 11 | Antibodies triggered by two Chinese vaccines are less effective against the Delta compared with other variants, Feng Zijian, former deputy director at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told state media last week |
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Two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were 60 percent effective against symptomatic disease from the Delta compared with 66 percent effectiveness against the Alpha, PHE said | Feng did not provide details including the name of the two vaccines |
It imposed in some cities since last week, but rejected a full national lockdown due to the economic crisis.
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