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A third dose of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine has significantly improved protection from infection and serious illness among people aged 60 and older in Israel compared with those who received two shots, findings published by the health ministry showed on Sunday.
The data were presented at a meeting of a ministry panel of vaccination experts on Thursday and uploaded to its website on Sunday, though the full details of the study were not released.
The findings were on par with separate statistics reported last week by Israel’s Maccabi healthcare provider, one of several organisations administering booster shots to try to curb the Delta coronavirus variant.
China’s health authority reported on Monday that there were no new locally transmitted Covid cases for the first time since July, offering more signs that the current outbreak that began late last month may be tapering off soon.
Reuters: The latest outbreak was driven mainly by infections first detected among a few airport workers in the eastern city of Nanjing on 20 July. Since then, more than 1,200 people in China have been confirmed to be infected.
The outbreak has spurred local authorities across the country to impose tough counter-epidemic measures including mass testing for millions of people to identify and isolate carriers, as well as treat the infected.
source https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/aug/23/coronavirus-live-news-taiwan-domestic-vaccine-china-zero-new-cases-israel-booster
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