FILE PHOTO: A health worker gets a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination center in SeoulSEOUL - One dose of COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca Plc and Pfizer was 86.6% effective in preventing infections among people aged 60 and older, real world data released by South Korea showed on Wednesday.
There were 1,237 COVID-19 cases in the data and only 29 were from the vaccinated group, the KDCA said. "Around 95% of people who died from the coronavirus in our country were senior citizens aged 60 or older, and the vaccines will sharply lower risks for those people," health ministry official Yoon Tae-ho told a briefing on Wednesday.
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