PHE monitoring of the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination
Data on the real-world efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines.
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On 8 December 2020, the UK became the first country to roll out a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination programme, initially using the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
Since the beginning of the programme, Public Health England (PHE) has been monitoring the effectiveness of the vaccines in the real world as set out in the COVID-19 vaccine surveillance strategy and has now published its first analysis of the impact of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on:
- symptomatic disease
- hospitalisation
- death
- infection (symptomatic or asymptomatic)
For the latest reports please see the UK Health Security Agency monitoring reports of the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination.
Weekly COVID-19 vaccine surveillance reports are available.
Updates to this page
Published 22 February 2021Last updated 14 September 2021 + show all updates
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Added link to 'vaccine effectiveness and duration of protection study'.
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Added link to Different dosing schedules and vaccine effectiveness study.
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Added link to vaccine effectiveness in clinical risk groups report.
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Added 'Direct and indirect impact of the vaccination programme on COVID-19 infections and mortality' report.
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Added link to 'Vaccine effectiveness with Delta variant'.
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Updated PHE monitoring of the early impact and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in England, March 2021 - title of figure 1 corrected.
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Added link 'Vaccine effectiveness with B.1.617.2 variant'.
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Added link to weekly surveillance report.
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Added link to the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines on mortality study, effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against hospitalisation study and summary of evidence on vaccine effectiveness against different outcomes.
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Added link to 'Impact of vaccination on household transmission of SARS-COV-2 in England'.
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Added links to the VIVALDI and Avon CAP studies.
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Added December 2020 to March 2021 report.
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Added link to Early effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in older adults.
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Added Impact of COVID-19 vaccines on mortality in England: December 2020 to February 2021.
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Added latest version of report and link to seroprevalence document.
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Added link to the SIREN study.
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