Health
Vaccine worries over mutation: UK minister – PerthNow
A study suggests the Pfizer vaccine can be effective against highly transmissible new strains of COVID-19, but scientists and a British minister retain doubts.
British Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has raised concerns about how effective existing COVID-19 vaccines might be against the highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus discovered in South Africa.
“There are concerns that the South African one in particular – about how effective the vaccine would be against it – so we simply cannot take chances,” he told Sky TV.
Shapps, a key member of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Cabinet, was speaking as Britain announced a new requirement for passengers…
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