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BBC: Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs effective against Indian variant

By BBC.

Published May 23, 2021. Updated May 23 at 5:51 am

A patient registers receive a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus disease, marketed under the name Covishield and produced in India, at an outpatient clinic in Kyiv on April 7, 2021.

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The Pfizer and AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines are highly effective against the variant identified in India after two doses, a study has found. Two jabs of either vaccine give a similar level of protection against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant as they do for the Kent one.