A new study that was conducted based on data collected from more than a million users of the ZOE COVID Symptom Study app has found that getting both COVID jabs reduces your chances of contracting the virus to a mere one in 22,500.
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More than 70 millions doses rolled out
The study also found that those who have received only one jab are three times likelier of catching COVID with the chances increasing to one in 2,908. The results only further strengthen scientists' claim that the link between, cases, hospitalisations and deaths has finally been broken.
With over 70 million doses having been rolled out according to latest figures, officials are saying that an estimate of 14,000 lives have been saved and a further 42,000 hospitalisations prevented thanks to the vaccine program.
55% of adults fully vaccinated
As it stands currently, 55% of adults have been fully inoculated but with the Delta variant making waves in the UK—significantly increasing cases with each passing day—health experts are urging those most at risk to imperatively get their doses. Dr Jenny Harries, the chief executive of the newly created UK Health Security Agency, said during a Royal Society of Medicine webinar that:
Cases are rising, I think that is becoming clearer and modelling does suggest that we would start to see a further rise, not necessarily immediately but in coming weeks.
She added:
Because of the rise in hospitalisations, and the risk that there may be a wider spread of the Delta (Indian) variant, it is really primarily important for saving lives that the older individuals who are more at risk, who have not had first and second vaccinations, maximally get vaccinated.
