The vaccine provides those who test positive for Covid protection against symptomatic reinfection as well as hospitalisation and death
The study, from Sweden, found that one vaccine dose in someone who has had a previous infection lowered their risk of reinfection by 58 per cent two months after the jab. A double dose lowered the risk of infection by 66 per cent.
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