Effectiveness of booster vaccinations against Omicron strain is estimated

Specialists of the British Health Safety Agency stated that booster vaccinations can increase the efficiency of the vaccine in the fight against Omicron-strain coronavirus by 75 percent. Reports about it Financial Times.

Researchers conducted tests with the participation of 581 people with confirmed infection by Omicron-strain. It became known that two standard vaccines vaccines from Astrazeneca and Pfizer-Biontech provide a much lower level of protection against Omicron strain than from Delta strain. With the introduction of a third dose, the effectiveness of drugs increases to 70-75 percent.

Head of the Department of Immunization Agency Mary Ramsei stated that this preliminary estimates and to them should be careful. At the same time, she suggested that a few months after the second vaccine vaccine vaccine against COVID-19, there is a greater risk to infected Omicron-strain than “Delta”.

Tests have shown that “Omicron” is twice as much easier from a person to man than “Delta”, and people who have previously suffered COVID-19 are more susceptible to the infection of Omicron strain than Delta strain.

Previously, the Japanese scientists of the Kyoto University found out that the strain of the coronavirus SARS-COV-2 Omicron was transferred from a person to a person 4.2 times more often than delta option. This discovery can confirm the fears of specialists about the fact that the new form of the virus is the most contagious.

/Media reports.