Vaccines working as expected in preventing Covid deaths, say experts

Total of 118 people have died after two doses in England, as PHE says vaccine drive has prevented about 30,000 deaths

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Two people under 50 and more than 100 over-50s have died of Covid after being fully vaccinated, official figures for England show, as experts said the jabs were working as expected amid surging infection rates attributed to the Delta variant.

Public Health England (PHE) figures show that between 1 February and 21 June this year, there were 118 deaths in people who had had both vaccine doses, 116 of them over 50.