The breakthrough findings offer further hope that the pandemic can be brought under control as vaccinated people are far less likely to pass the virus onto others.
Meanwhile the crisis in India is deepening with the country’s coronavirus death toll passing 200,000, as shortages of oxygen, medical supplies and hospital staff compound record new cases of the virus.
Supplies of life-saving oxygen and equipment have begun arriving in New Delhi, including ventilators and oxygen concentrators from the UK, with more dispatched from Ireland, Germany and Australia.
