south. thank you. let s take a look at today s papers. gas firms may face windfall tax is the headline on the front of the guardian this morning. the paper goes on to say that soaring gas prices could threaten the viability of all but the biggest energy firms. the daily telegraph says the prime minister and president biden privately expressed astonishment at france s reaction to the military pact, aukus, during their meeting this week. the paper reports that borisjohnson told the french president to get a grip , in a mixture of french and english. the times leads with comments from the creator of the oxford astrazeneca coronavirus vaccine, dame professor sarah gilbert, who says that she believes the disease will eventually become milder, sharing similarities with the common cold. 24 hours to save the gold of la palma , is the headline on the spanish news website, el mundo. it reports on the effects of the recent volcanic eruption on one of the islands biggest exports, bananas.
into the red list. i m afraid this is a pattern under this government, whether it was, you know, no formal quarantining untiljune last year, no mandatory testing tool this year, no mandatory testing tool this year, no quarantining till february this year, and then that 14 day inexplicable to say that it might delay in putting india onto the red list. it s been a hallmark of this government and huge problems that they ve caused themselves in code protection at the border. they ve caused themselves in code protection at the border. thank you ve much protection at the border. thank you very much for protection at the border. thank you very much for your protection at the border. thank you very much for your time protection at the border. thank you very much for your time today. i protection at the border. thank you very much for your time today. just j very much for your time today. just hearing a line that the prime minister has received his second dose of the astrazeneca coronavir
Two doses from either the Oxford/AstraZeneca or the Pfizer vaccine are over 80 per cent effective in preventing infection from the B1.617.2 variant of COVID-19, first discovered in India, a new UK government study has reportedly found.
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More data confirm single dose of Pfizer, AstraZeneca vaccines work
Scientists at Oxford University have released more data that confirm coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca both significantly cut the risk of infection after a single dose. In studies published on Friday, researchers said there was no apparent difference in the vaccines ability to reduce COVID-19 infection rates.
The research has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal but is based on data from nose and throat swabs taken from more than 370,000 participants in England and Wales between December and April.
The scientists said that three weeks after people had been given a single dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or AstraZeneca vaccine, the rates of all COVID-19 infections fell by 65 per cent. The reduction was bigger after a second dose and the vaccines appeared to protect people against the variant that was first identified in the UK.