India adds 1m new cases in just four days with hospitals in north warning they have only a few hours of medical oxygen; US passes 200m vaccines
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If you haven’t yet read this piece by our science editor Ian Sample, then can I point you in its direction: ‘Extraordinary’ Covid jab data is misleading, but the numbers are still hugely positive
Is it really true that only 32 vaccinated people in the UK have been hospitalised with Covid? It would be extraordinary, were it true. Sadly, the real number of people admitted to hospital even several weeks after receiving a shot of vaccine – the time it takes for the immune system to mount a good defence – will be many times higher.
Related: ‘Extraordinary’ Covid jab data is misleading, but the numbers are still hugely positive
Japan’s troubled vaccination rollout has left British residents feeling “trapped” in their adopted home, preventing them visiting parents and children they haven’t seen since before the coronavirus pandemic.
Since its rollout began in mid-February, Japan has vaccinated less than 1% of its population, compared with 2.9% in South Korea and at least 40% in the US and Britain. Supply issues, red tape and poor planning have prompted warnings that it could take another year to vaccinate the country’s 110 million over-15s.
Related: Britons left stranded by Japan’s slow vaccine rollout
