ANALYSIS

MANY will be alarmed that despite being doublejabbed, people like British health secretary Sajid Javid have tested positive for Covid-19.

But he is by no means a rare case: GPs in many countries are seeing increasing numbers of fully inoculated patients catching the virus.

In fact, in Britain more than 15,500 partly or fully vaccinated people a day are reporting Covid symptoms, according to the latest research.

That number has soared by around 40% in a week, says the ZOE Covid

Symptom Study, which uses an app downloaded by at least three million people to track the disease.

But a jump in cases among the vaccinated was always expected. Put simply, the jabs are better at blunting the virus than snuffing it out.

Latest figures show two doses of AstraZeneca are 67% effective at preventing symptomatic disease from the Delta variant, while two doses of Pfizer are 88% effective.

Two doses of the

AstraZeneca vaccine cut the risk of hospitalisation by 92%. The figure is 96% for two doses of Pfizer.

A growing number of vaccinated people may be displaying symptoms – but most are not falling seriously ill.

Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, who leads the ZOE study, said: ‘While the figures look worrying, it’s important to highlight that vaccines have massively reduced severe infections and postvaccination Covid is a much milder disease for most people.’