Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine Protective against Beta, Gamma Variant: Study

According to a study, US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's vaccine can effectively neutralise Beta, Gamma variant of the Coronavirus disease.
Source: Google / Image credit: ANI News
Source: Google / Image credit: ANI News

In the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic, different variants of COVID-19 remain a matter of concern. According to a study, US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's vaccine can effectively neutralise Beta, Gamma variant of the Coronavirus disease.

The study, led by researchers from New York University, US, showed that the Pfizer BNT162b2 vaccination worked well against most variants of the earlier virus, but the vaccine neutralised the South African variant and the Brazilian variant with a 3-fold decrease in titer.

Nathaniel "Ned" Landau, Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine said, "Our interpretation of the results is that the vaccine antibodies are very powerful, and even if you lose 3-fold of the titer, there is still plenty of antibodies there to neutralize the virus. We believe the findings demonstrate that the vaccines will remain protective against the variants that we tested. One of the Regeneron antibodies is affected by the E484K mutation. As a result the cocktail loses some of its neutralizing activity."

Source: Google / Image credit: ANI News
Source: Google / Image credit: ANI News

India to receive 80 million COVID-19 vaccines through COVAX:

Meanwhile, India will receive a share of the 80 million (8 crores) unused COVID-19 vaccines through the UN-backed COVAX global vaccine sharing programme that President Joe Biden has announced, a senior State Department official said on Thursday. On June 2, Biden announced that the US would allocate 75 percent of the coronavirus vaccines from its stockpile. Nearly 1.9 crores of the first tranche of 2.5 crore doses—through the United Nations-backed Covax global vaccine sharing program to countries in South and Southeast Asia as well as Africa.

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