Vaccines estimated to have prevented 60,000 Covid-19 deaths in England

The data emerged as the number of people being told to self-isolate reached another record, with almost 700,000 alerts sent to Covid app users in England and Wales

The statistics cover the period up to July 23 and are based on modelling by PHE and Cambridge University.

Covid-19 vaccines are estimated to have prevented an estimated 22 million infections and 60,000 deaths in England.

Figures from Public Health England (PHE) also suggest jabs are estimated to have directly averted more than 52,600 hospital admissions.