Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox An NHS boss has said vaccination appears to have “broken the chain” between catching coronavirus and becoming seriously ill.
NHS Providers chief executive, Chris Hopson, said the number of people in hospital with the Covid-19 variant first detected in India - known as the Delta variant - was not increasing “very significantly”.
Many of those in hospital in Bolton – which has the highest number of cases of the Indian variant in England – were younger than in previous waves of the pandemic, he told BBC Breakfast. “The people who came in this time round were actually a lot younger and were a lot less at risk of very serious complication, less at risk of death,
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