This follows a small study of 30 participants that revealed the booster shot increased neutralising antibodies against omicron 36-fold. Just 28 per cent of this age group are fully vaccinated, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after two doses were made available to 5 to 11 year olds last October. Pfizer and its partner BioNTech have applied for authorisation of their booster shot for 5 to 11 year olds in the US. In February, covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in England, accounting for 5.6 per cent of all fatalities. “As many countries reduce testing, WHO is receiving less and less information about transmission and sequencing,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director-general, said in a press conference on 26 April.Ĭovid-19 was the sixth leading cause of death in England in March, accounting for 4.3 per cent of all fatalities, according to the Office for National Statistics. Reduced testing across many countries means the world is “increasingly blind to patterns of transmission and evolution” of covid-19, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
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