Fear of Delta, Albania among four countries that have vaccinated Europe's least population

According to Worldida data, Europe on average has vaccinated at least 44.4% of the population (32.2% entirely, while even 12.2% have received at least one dose. The data is up to June 12th.

The record in Europe keeps the United Kingdom, with partial vaculation of 68% of the population, out of which 51.4% have been fully vaccinated, while another 16.3% have received a dose.

The British government has announced that the vaccine has made a significant impact on reducing the number of hospital patients infected with the Delta version.

According to an analysis by England's Public Health Unit, Pfizer vaccine - B NTech is 96% effective against hospitalization after 2 doses, while the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is 92% effective against hospitalization after 2 doses. These are comparable to the effectiveness of the vaccine against hospitalization by the Alpha version. More data is required to determine the level of protection from mortality from the Delta version. However, as with other options, this is expected to be high, the report points out.

In second place in Europe is Belgium, with 66% of the population partially vaccinated, 4.3% with both doses. The Netherlands then ranks 65% (39% entirely vaccinated).

Austria is the state that has the largest population percentage in Europe, which has been entirely vaccinated, with about 54% of total.

Italy has vaccinated at least 59% of the population, (39% have completed the process).

Greece has given at least one dose of 50.5% of the population. Nearly 42% took both doses.

Vaccination in region, Albania lags behind

Serbia continues to remain the state with the highest level of vaccine in the region, although rhythms have dropped significantly in proportion to February of March, when it ranked second in Europe after the United Kingdom. However, it continues to have a high weight for the fully vaccinated population, with 38% of total (40% in part).

Montenegro, which began the vaccine later than Albania has moved faster, fully vaccinating 23% of the population, while another 2.3% have received a dose (total 25.2%).

Albania has slowed the vaccine rate. By June 12th, only 20.5% of the population was partially vaccinated. 15.2% of the population took both doses. 5.3% only got one.

Northern Macedonia has also partially vaccinated around 20% of the population (about 12% completely).

Later in Europe, Bulgaria (14.2% vaccinated at least in part), Kosovo (9.4%), Bosnia and Herzegovina (9.3%).

How effective are vaccines to option Delta

At the moment, there's not much data on the efficiency of vaccines to Option Delta. First studies show it is effective. The Financial Times writes that the high efficiency of doses in the United Kingdom, where the Delta version is dominant and more than half of the population has been fully vaccinated, reflected in the current mortality rate for patients, who at 0.5 percent is 20 times lower than at its height, according to Meaghan Kalll, an epidemiologist at the United Kingdom Public Health Institute.

Canadian scientists, using a combination of methods, estimated that Pfizer's vaccine was 87 percent effective in preventing infection with the Delta version. This was “comparable”, researchers said, with 89 percent of the protection provided by the Alpha version, identified for the first time in Britain.

For other vaccines, however, efficiency data in the real world still does not exist, forcing health officials to rely on laboratory tests to assess the effectiveness against Delta. In such studies, scientists use the blood of individuals vaccinated to assess the effectiveness of a dose against a laboratory variant.

Russia's Sputnik V producers have said it is the most efficient “against the Delta version of the coronary. . rather than any other vaccine that has published results so far”, but gave no evidence to support the claim.

Some Chinese scientists have said that for some Chinese vaccines it has been found to be less effective against Delta than against previous variants, but no details have been provided. Sinovac spokesman Liu Peicheng told Reuters that preliminary results based on blood samples from those who vaccinated with this vaccine showed a triple reduction in the neutral effect on Delta.

Peter English, a public health expert, warned that while the data on anti-resident efficiency in the hospital was generally positive, the ability of vaccines to prevent Delta transmission was much less clear.

“Delta is much more infectious, which means that the virus finds people who are not enough imuna and infects them”, he said, adding that it will take time to have reliable information regarding transmission levels. /montor