Covid vaccinations have saved more than one million lives across Europe since the end of 2020, according to a new report. Researchers analysed data on deaths and vaccinations to deduce that the majority of the lives saved were over 60 and that the first booster vaccine proved most preventative in this age group.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates suggest that close to half the more than two million people who died across the continent with the respiratory disease were saved by vaccines. The new estimates from WHO/Europe are due to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Copenhagen, Denmark, and serve to highlight the importance of vaccinations.
It is also hoped the statistics will encourage countries with low vaccine take ups to push to fully vaccinate older adults. Since the emergence and subsequent spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the early stages of 2020, more than two million Covid-19 laboratory-confirmed deaths have been officially recorded by WHO/Europe.
