LONDON: Britain is increasingly confident that vaccines work against the coronavirus variant first found in India, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday, with a leading epidemiologist saying it may be spreading less quickly than first feared.
Johnson has warned that the emergence of the B.1.617.2 variant might derail his plans to lift England’s lockdown fully on June 21, but yesterday he said the latest data had been encouraging.
“We have increasing confidence vaccines are effective against all variants, including the Indian variant,” he told Parliament.
