Vaccination prevents severe illnesses: Soumya Swaminathan
The Hindu
‘Despite reduced efficacy against variants, it must continue’
While some of the COVID-19 vaccines have reported reduced efficacy against new variants of the SARS CoV-2 virus, they continue to remain effective in preventing severe illness, said Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, World Health Organization. Delivering the 23rd Dr. S. Rangarajan Memorial Lecture, organised by Sundaram Medical Foundation through video conferencing on Friday, she said that vaccination must be continued to prevent severe illness, hospitalisation and death regardless of the variants. Pointing out that 11 vaccines were used across the world against COVID-19, Dr. Soumya said that some of them had reported reduced efficacy against the new variants.More Related News