People who have been vaccinated against the CCP virus must continue to follow lockdown restrictions as they may still pass the virus on to others, Britain’s health secretary said on Monday.
He said there are two reasons why vaccinated people must continue to obey the rules.
“First, because the protection takes time. Your body’s immune [system] is only fully trained up around three weeks after your jab. And, even if you have protection yourself, we still don’t know whether you will be able to pass coronavirus on to someone else,” he said.
“We are monitoring this very carefully and will publish information on it as soon as we have it available. So this is not a moment to ease up.”
“So even after you have had both doses of the vaccine you may still give COVID-19 to someone else and the chains of transmission will then continue,” he added.
Van-Tam also warned that “no vaccine has ever been 100 percent effective” and “no one will have 100 percent protection from the virus.”
At Monday’s press briefing, Hancock said Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is “still under intense pressure across all parts of the country,” with 37,899 people in UK hospitals with the CCP virus, including 4,076 on ventilators.
But Hancock said there are “early signs that the actions we’re taking are working.”
“The rise in the number of cases is slowing, and falling in some parts of the country like London and Scotland. At the same time, the number of vaccinations is going up,” he said.
Hancock said he was “so proud” to report that, as of Sunday night, 78.7 percent of all over-80s had been vaccinated.
He said the vaccination drive “means so much to people because the vaccine brings safety to that individual and marks the route out for us all from this pandemic.”