(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 23 - According to a British study conducted by Public Health England, the vaccines against the coronavirus Pfizer and AstraZeneca are "highly effective", after two doses, against the variant identified in India.
The Pfizer vaccine, the BBC reports, was found to be 88% effective in stopping symptomatic disease from the Indian strain two weeks after the second dose.
AstraZeneca is 60% effective.
However, both vaccines are only 33% effective three weeks after a single dose.
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