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People who have received a booster or third COVID-19 vaccination are on average around two-thirds less likely to be infected, compared to those who have had two doses of the vaccine, according to the latest findings.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study, by Imperial College London and Ipsos MORI<\/a>, involved over 100,000 volunteers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s latest findings also show a decline in prevalence, with one in 64 people now infected with the virus, compared to one in 58 people, identified in their last study. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Young people, aged between 12 and 17 years old, who have had a single dose of the vaccine, are 56 per cent less likely to develop infection than those who are unvaccinated.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said that the latest studies provide another reminder of the effectiveness of the vaccines against coronavirus. She said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As we approach winter, it is vital that everyone eligible comes forward for their jabs, whether that’s their first dose, second or booster.\u00a0<\/p>

“Please do take up the offer to ensure your immunity does not wane.”\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":54295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[106,24],"tags":[293],"class_list":["post-54294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-social-care","category-dcc-homepage","tag-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"featured_image":{"ID":54295,"title":"Vaccine","alt":"bottle of clear liquid as if in a lab, with the word 'vaccine' on the bottle","description":"","caption":"","url":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","width":578,"height":408,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine-400x270.jpg","thumbnail_width":400,"thumbnail_height":270,"medium":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","medium_width":578,"medium_height":408,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","medium_large_width":578,"medium_large_height":408,"large":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","large_width":578,"large_height":408,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","1536x1536_width":578,"1536x1536_height":408,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","2048x2048_width":578,"2048x2048_height":408,"thumbnail_featured":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","thumbnail_featured_width":578,"thumbnail_featured_height":408,"thumbnail_sidebar":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine-200x135.jpg","thumbnail_sidebar_width":200,"thumbnail_sidebar_height":135,"banner-block":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","banner-block_width":440,"banner-block_height":311,"small-banner":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","small-banner_width":578,"small-banner_height":408,"medium-banner":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","medium-banner_width":578,"medium-banner_height":408,"small-thumb":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","small-thumb_width":578,"small-thumb_height":408,"medium-thumb":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","medium-thumb_width":320,"medium-thumb_height":226,"large-thumb":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","large-thumb_width":420,"large-thumb_height":296,"slideshow-preview":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","slideshow-preview_width":283,"slideshow-preview_height":200,"slideshow":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2021\/11\/Vaccine.jpg","slideshow_width":578,"slideshow_height":408}},"category_priority":false,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2028-05-02 23:31:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54296,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54294\/revisions\/54296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}