Chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has given Matt Hancock a slap on the wrists for claiming, without clear evidence, that the South African variant of coronavirus may make jabs 50% less effective.
The Health Secretary made the sensational claim in footage obtained by MailOnline on Friday, in which he warned allowing the variant to become the dominant strain in the UK could ruin Britain s vaccination drive and send the country back to square one .
The comments were made during an online webinar with travel agents this week, it is understood, to the shock of everyone on the call.
He said there was evidence in the public domain that the South African variant reduces vaccine efficacy by about 50 per cent . Although he followed up by saying: We are not sure of this data so I wouldn t say this in public.
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