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. 2021 Dec 14;11:777212. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2021.777212

Table 1.

Efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine on Clinical trials.

SARS- CoV-2 variant Key mutations First detected Transmissibility Vaccine-mediated protection
Corona Vac (Sinovac) NVX- CoV2373 (Novavax) mRnA-1273 (moderna) Ad26.CoV2-S (Johnson & Johnson) AZD1222 (AstraZeneca– university of oxford) BnT162b2 (Pfizer– BionTech) References
Wuhan strain Reference strain China, December 2019 Original strain 50–90% 89% 94.1% 66% 55–81% 95% Rahimi et al., 2021
B.1.617.2 (Delta) L452R India, December 2020 97% increase Not known Not known Neutralization titer 6.8-l Reports of 60% effectiveness 92% effective against hospitalization one dose of vaccine is 88% effective Tregoning et al., 2021
T478K
D614G
P681R
Alpha, B.1.1.7 H69/V70 deleti UK, September 2020 ~50% increase Unknown 86% 2.3–6.4 in titres of neutralizing antibodies 70% 75% 90% Wang et al., 2021; Abu-Raddad et al., 2021
Beta, B.1.351 D614G South 25% increase Unknown 60% Reduced levels of neutralizing antibodies 72% efficacy in the USA, and 57% in South Africa 10% 75% Hoffmann et al., 2021
K417N Africa,
E484K September 2020
N501Y
Gamma, P.1 (B.1.1.28.1) E484K Japan/ 1.4–2.2 times more transmissible 51% Unknown Reduced levels of neutralizing antibodies 68% Unknown No evidence of reduced protection Aleem et al., 2021
K417N/T Brazil,
N501Y December 2020
D614G