In accordance with analyze Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 96% effective in preventing hospitalizations due to Delta infections after two doses of the vaccine, according to British health authorities. In the case of the Oxford-AstraZenecao vaccine, the efficacy rate is 92%.
These efficacy rates are comparable to those of these vaccines in preventing hospitalization for the Alpha variant, first discovered in the UK.
This study was based on 14,019 cases of the Delta variant, 166 of which were hospitalized between April 12 and June 4.
The level of protection of these vaccines against mortality from the Delta variant is still under study. “However, as with other options, it is expected to be high,” says Public Health England.
In another analysis, the health agency has already concluded that the vaccine dose is 17% less effective in preventing the symptomatic disease of the Delta variant than the Alpha variant. However, after two doses, “the difference is only small.”
These findings are consistent with mentioned virologist Pedro Simas this Monday, the day he explained that so far there hasn’t been a variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that “interferes with the protective effect” of covid-19 vaccines, stressing that they are all effective in preventing serious illness and death.
“This does not mean that very rare cases do not occur, but we cannot focus on the rare, and now we have to look at the common good that is misleading,” defended Pedro Simas.
The specialist spoke with Lusa agency about the Delta option related to India, about the increase in cases in Lisbon and the Vale do Tejo region and about hospitalization, in some cases people have already received the first dose of the vaccine.
A virologist at the University of Lisbon’s Molecular Institute stated that “it is very rare for a person to be vaccinated, be immune and contract an infection, whatever it may be, and die,” explaining that he must have other diseases. health conditions such as chronic illness are very serious.
Regarding the increase in the number of cases, Pedro Simas said that “there is a small increase”, which is normal due to the lack of conditions, but the numbers are “very small”.
“At the moment, the circulation of the virus is not a problem because the populations at risk are protected and the virus is already spreading with non-exponential spread,” he said.
On the other hand, vaccinated people, upon contact with the virus, renew their immunity, which will be “much more complete, against several viral proteins, not just one.”
Pedro Simas recalled that 43% of the Portuguese population are vaccinated with at least one dose of the vaccine, which is “sufficient to ensure cellular immunity, protection from serious illness and death.”
If you add to this 43% about 15% of people immunized naturally because they contracted COVID-19, about 15%, which is “net profit”, then in Portugal there is almost “58% of the population’s immunity.”
Putin has repeatedly consulted with Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu about the invasion, Europa Press told Ukraine’s chief intelligence director Vadim Skibitsky.
According to Skibitsky, it was the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which is responsible for counterintelligence and espionage work, that put pressure on Gerasimov and other military agencies to agree to launch an offensive. .
However, according to the Ukrainian intelligence services, the FSB considered that by the end of February sufficient preparations had already been made to guarantee the success of the Russian Armed Forces in a lightning invasion.
However, according to Kyiv, the Russian General Staff provided the Russian troops with supplies and ammunition for only three days, hoping that the offensive would be swift and immediately successful.
The head of Ukrainian intelligence also emphasized the cooperation of local residents, who always provided the Ukrainian authorities with up-to-date information about the Russian army, such as the number of soldiers or the exact location of troops.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
A Stockholm court on Monday sentenced a former Swedish intelligence officer to life in prison for spying for Russia, and his brother to at least 12 years in prison. In what is considered one of the most serious cases in Swedish counterintelligence history, much of the trial took place behind closed doors in the name of national security.
According to the prosecution, it was Russian military intelligence, the GRU, who took advantage of the information provided by the two brothers between 2011 and their arrest at the end of 2021.
Peyman Kia, 42, has held many senior positions in the Swedish security apparatus, including the army and his country’s intelligence services (Säpo). His younger brother, Payam, 35, is accused of “participating in the planning” of the plot and of “managing contacts with Russia and the GRU, including passing on information and receiving financial rewards.”
Both men deny the charges, and their lawyers have demanded an acquittal on charges of “aggravated espionage,” according to the Swedish news agency TT.
The trial coincides with another case of alleged Russian espionage, with the arrest of the Russian-born couple in late November in a suburb of Stockholm by a police team arriving at dawn in a Blackhawk helicopter.
Research website Bellingcat identified them as Sergei Skvortsov and Elena Kulkova. The couple allegedly acted as sleeper agents for Moscow, having moved to Sweden in the late 1990s.
According to Swedish press reports, the couple ran companies specializing in the import and export of electronic components and industrial technology.
The man was again detained at the end of November for “illegal intelligence activities.” His partner, suspected of being an accomplice, has been released but remains under investigation.
According to Swedish authorities, the arrests are not related to the trial of the Kia brothers.
“They can strengthen their positions. We understand that this can happen. At the same time, we do not rule out that they will announce a general mobilization,” Danilov said in an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda online publication.
Danilov believed that this mobilization would also be convened “to exterminate as many as possible” of Russian citizens, so that “they would no longer have any problems on their territory.”
In this sense, Danilov also reminded that Russia has not given up on securing control over Kyiv or the idea of the complete “destruction” of Ukraine. “We have to be ready for anything,” he said.
“I want everyone to understand that [os russos] they have not given up on the idea of destroying our nation. If they don’t have Kyiv in their hands, they won’t have anything in their hands, we must understand this,” continued Danilov, who also did not rule out that a new Russian offensive would come from “Belarus and other territories.” .
As such, Danilov praised the decision of many of its residents who chose to stay in the Ukrainian capital when the war broke out in order to defend the city.
“They expected that there would be panic, that people would run, that there would be nothing to protect Kyiv,” he added, referring to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The Russian invasion, justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security, was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions on Russia.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
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