Covid Vaccines are reducing the likelihood of hospitalisation by 80 per cent among those aged over 70.
During this evening’s Downing Street Press Conference Deputy Chief Medical Officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam said that the data gives us the “first glimpses of how if we are patient and give this vaccine program time to have a full effect” it will take us into a “very new world.”
Figures showed that death rate amongst the elderly, who have been vaccinated, is now falling faster than amongst younger people and Covid admissions amongst the over-80s to intensive care units have fallen to single figures
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the data showed that “a single shot of either the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine or of the Pfizer vaccine works against severe infection among the over-70s with a more than 80% reduction in hospitalisations”.
Meanwhile The UK has recorded 104 further Covid deaths – its lowest daily total for more than four months and recorded 5,455 further cases, its lowest daily total for more than five months.
The headline figure has not been this low since Monday 28 September, when 4,044 new cases were recorded. Week on week, new cases are down 28.7%.
