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British Health Minister Matt Hancock announced this Wednesday that more than 10 million people (15% of the population) have already received the first dose of the vaccine. This figure has been reached two months after the campaign began, on December 8. The vaccine from AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford not only protects against contracting a serious covid, but also helps to avoid infecting other people, according to a study published by the British institution that has yet to be reviewed by other scientists. Hancock has explained in a message on his Twitter profile that transmission of the virus after vaccination is reduced by two thirds. In Spain, Andalusia has registered this Wednesday a decrease in the number of hospitalized with coronavirus for the first time in a month. It has reported 4,911 patients, 69 fewer than the day before, when the peak of the entire pandemic was reached. Catalonia has identified the first case of the South African variant of covid-19 in the region, as explained by the Secretary of Public Health of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Josep Maria Argimon. It was detected this Wednesday morning in Barcelona, so the epidemiological studies of the case are ongoing, but Argimon has advanced that the patient has no relationship with South Africa and has warned that "there are probably more cases." Last week the first confirmed case of this variant was detected in Vigo.