Oxford Covid-19 vaccine has similar effect against UK variant, study suggests

Researchers who developed the vaccine say it has a similar efficacy against the variant (Yui Mok/PA)

The Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine is just as effective at fighting the UK variant as the original virus, new research suggests.

Oxford University researchers who developed the vaccine say it has a similar efficacy against the variant, compared with the original strain of Covid-19 against which it was tested.