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.