Pharmaceutical company Pfizer said that its coronavirus vaccine was highly effective, around 90%, against Delta variant of Covid-19, reported Reuters.
First identified in India, Delta is becoming the globally dominant variant of the coronavirus, according to the World Health Organisation.
“The data we have today, accumulating from research we are conducting at the lab and including data from those places where the Indian variant, Delta, has replaced the British variant as the common variant, point to our vaccine being very effective, around 90%, in preventing the coronavirus disease, COVID-19,” Alon Rappaport, Pfizer’s medical director in Israel, told local broadcaster Army Radio.
Sputnik V, the Russia-made vaccine available now in India, has also claimed that the vaccine is effective against the Delta variant.
India reported 54,069 fresh cases and 1,321 deaths as per health ministry’s updated data on Thursday. The national recovery rate has increased to 96.61%, this as the weekly positivity rate remains below 5%. Total recoveries have further climbed to 2,90,63,740
