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Festival in South London: Premier Johnson relies on a loose corona policy
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The British health authority "Public Health England" (PHE) suspects that people who are infected with the Delta variant are very contagious - regardless of their vaccination status.
The "Guardian" reports.
Initial findings showed that the viral load in vaccinated people who tested positive due to a breakthrough vaccination is just as high as in unvaccinated Delta infected people, according to the paper in a statement from the PHE.
"That probably has an impact on their infectivity," it said.
These are very early dates.
Further investigations are necessary to verify the assumptions.
The notification does not indicate which data the PHE refers to.
Last week, the US Disease Control Agency reported observations that suggested that vaccinated people could have a viral load similar to that of unvaccinated people.
This could make them just as contagious as unvaccinated infected people.
Despite a full vaccination, people can become infected with the coronavirus and pass the virus on.
Such vaccination breakthroughs are very rare.
However, initial data show that the delta variant can evidently lead to what is known as an »Antibody Escape« - it effectively outwits the vaccination and can lead to an infection in individual cases.
It seems that this happens more often with Delta than with the previous variants.
However, the vaccines continue to protect very reliably against severe courses with hospitalization and fatal courses.
Nevertheless, the observations mean that vaccinated people must continue to be careful, especially when they meet unvaccinated people.
Although the number of cases in Great Britain had risen sharply again after the Delta variant had become the dominant variant there, Prime Minister Boris Johnson relied on a loose corona policy.
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