Russia: Sputnik V Dose Effective by 83% against Delta

Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine dose is effective by 83% against the lately emerged Delta variant, said Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko on Wednesday.

The minister also asserted that the vaccine secures people from 95% of severe illness that caused by the virus.

Delta variant is still raising the concern of the whole world as it causes an unstoppable surge in the number of infections.

Early this month, a new study showed that the recent globally-emerged Coronavirus variant Delta is more transmissible than the Alpha variant with more than 200%.

In addition, the study highlighted that this strain could leave more dangerous effects and symptoms for patients.

Therefore, Chinese Center for Control Disease and Prevention experts told local media reporters that vaccines could be less effective against the previously mentioned strain, however, this does not deny the importance and protection of the vaccines against Delta strain.

They added that there is no 100% effective vaccine against any virus, asserting that currently available vaccines are capable of affecting various mutated versions of the virus.

The study also showed that vaccines succeeded in reducing the duration of treatment and declining the number of dangerous COVID-19 linked cases, and deaths.

It is worthy to mention that the Delta variant is no leading China to a major and nationwide COVID-19 restriction, alongside side expected lockdown since the Wuhan crisis.