Health secretary
However that timeline means the decision to press on or delay the 21 June reopening could likely be made without knowing how well Covid vaccines work against this more-transmissable variant.
Hancock told MPs officials are working on developing the “absolutely critical” figure showing the efficacy of jabs at reducing serious diseases and hospital admissions for the Delta variant first identified in
He revealed the timetable after Tory former minister
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Harper said: “The Secretary of State yesterday at the statement didn’t have available to hand the information as to the efficacy of the Covid vaccines in reducing serious disease and hospitalisation, and he made a commitment rightly to set them out today at health questions at the despatch box.
“I’m delighted in this question to give him the opportunity to do so.”
Hancock replied in the Commons: “I can set out that a single dose of the
“However, the question that ( Harper) asked was specific also to the Delta variant and I said that I didn’t have the figure in my head for the reduction in hospitalisations.
“I don’t know whether I should be glad but I can report to him that the reason for that is there is not yet a conclusive figure.
“I spoke to Dr
“It’s obviously an absolutely critical figure and I’ll report it to the House as soon as we have it.”
The Delta variant is thought to be 40 per cent more transmissible than the Alpha variant first seen in
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