Live Yorkshire Covid updates as government says Pfizer and AZ jabs work against Indian variant
Elsewhere, concern about the Yorkshire variant continues and Kirklees has the fourth highest rate of infection in England
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is being rolled out across the country (Image: Richard Youle)
The Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is 88% effective against the Indian variant after two doses, a study by Public Health England (PHE) has found.
Both the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs were found to be almost as effective against symptomatic disease from the B1617.2 strain as they are against the Kent variant after the second dose.
However, they were only 33% effective three weeks after the first dose.
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