Covid-19 Astrazeneca vaccine is less effective against the South African strain
Covid-19 Spain will administer the AstraZeneca vaccine only to people between 18 and 55 years old
Tomorrow the almost 200,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines against the coronavirus that arrived in Spain this Saturday will be distributed among the autonomous communities.
The shipment coincides with the publication of a
Financial Times
report
that highlights the lower efficacy of its doses against the South African variant of the coronavirus, which the pharmaceutical company denies.
The data of the coronavirus in Spain
432,228 in
Andalusia
(6,757 dead)
100,714 in
Aragon
(3,020 dead)
38,995 in
Asturias
(1,558 dead)
53,584 in the
Balearic Islands
(622 dead)
36,678 in the
Canary Islands
(542 dead)
23,116 in
Cantabria
(465 dead)
158,757 in
Castilla-La Mancha
(4,973 dead)
194,915 in
Castilla y León
(5,820 dead)
523,662 in
Catalonia
(9,523 dead)
4,138 in
Ceuta
(74 dead)
341,314 in the
Valencian Community
(5,303 dead)
66,852 in
Extremadura
(1,554 dead)
101,860 in
Galicia
(1,899 dead)
541,095 in
Madrid
(12,833 dead)
6,315 in
Melilla
(54 dead)
102,058 in
Murcia
(1,203 dead)
49,548 in
Navarra
(1,044 dead)
139,527 in the
Basque Country
(3,445 dead)
26,634 in
La Rioja
(667 dead)
* Source: Ministry of Health
Total figures: 2,941,990 confirmed coronavirus cases with a diagnostic test for active infection;
There have been 61,386 deaths with a positive test as of February 5
07.50 Close to 200,000 doses of AstraZneca are distributed tomorrow among the autonomies
Tomorrow, the Ministry of Health will proceed to distribute the 196,800 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine and the University of Oxford that have already arrived in Spain among the autonomous communities.
This vaccine will be administered to people between 18 and 55 years of age and is expected to be a boost to the first phase of the vaccination campaign in our country that is expected to last until March.
The Government maintains that by the end of the summer 70% of the Spanish population will be vaccinated.
07.32 The Brazilian strain threatens the decline in incidence in the third wave of the coronavirus.
The accumulated incidence in the third wave continues to decline, although with the threat of the Brazilian strain of the coronavirus, of which
a case
has already been
detected in Madrid
, the first in Spain, and the recognition by Health that the British variant it can be more lethal.
07.30 This is how the first case of the Brazilian variant of the coronavirus has been found in Spain
We visited the unit of the Hospital Gregorio Marañón in Madrid which, using genomic sequencing, tracks the presence of new variants of the virus.
Last Friday they detected the first case of the Brazilian strain in a traveler who arrived at the Barajas airport.
This is how the 'hunters' of new coronavirus strains who have found the first case of the Brazilian variant in Spain work
07.19 AstraZeneca defends the efficacy of its vaccine against the South African variant
The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is equally effective against the British variant, the pharmaceutical company replied in a statement to the
Financial Times
report
, which will be released in its entirety tomorrow, which questions its effectiveness against disease in its mildest and moderate version.
A spokesperson for AstraZeneca has admitted lower efficacy only in the early phases of the vaccine trial.
"In this small phase I / II trial, early data have shown limited efficacy against mild disease primarily due to the South African variant B.1.351," he said in response to the FT report.
"However, we have not been able to adequately determine its effect against severe illness and hospitalization since the subjects were predominantly healthy young adults," he added.
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