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by Ammu KANNAMPILLY Agence France Presse MUMBAI, India (AFP) — Fire tore through part of the world’s biggest vaccine production hub in western India on Thursday, but the company insisted that the production of drugs to counter the coronavirus pandemic was not affected. Serum Institute of India is producing millions of doses of the Covishield coronavirus vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. TV channels showed thick clouds of grey smoke billowing from the […]
by Agence France Presse Bureaus SAO PAULO, Brazil (AFP) — The global Covid-19 vaccination drive gained pace Sunday as Brazil gave its first injections and India pushed on with its massive campaign, while European authorities sought to allay concerns about delays in supplies. Brazil’s health regulator gave the green light for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and China’s CoronaVac to be used as the Latin American giant suffers a devastating second wave of the coronavirus. Monica […]
https://youtu.be/UEiz1rk-rz8 (Eagle News) — The Philippines is readying cold storage facilities for the expected COVID-19 vaccines that will be coming into the country by next month. Philippine vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr said that they have already identified the major hubs which already have cold storage warehouses that could store the vaccines. The central hub is in Metro Manila where millions of vaccine doses can be stored. From the Philippine capital, there will […]
(Eagle News) — The Quezon City government announced that the city will “receive an initial 1.1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine” against COVID-19 after signing a tripartite agreement with the national government and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals Philippines. Quezon City mayor Joy Belmonte said that the additional doses of AstraZeneca vaccines will be coming by the third quarter of this year. This is an increase from the previous 750,000 doses that it had initially ordered for […]
Total of 6 million vaccine doses from AstraZeneca assured https://youtu.be/O3nI8NEWq4M (Eagle News) – The number of private companies which had joined the second batch of the tripartite agreement with the Philippine governemnt to buy COVID-19 vaccines from the United Kingdom’s AstraZeneca had increased to around 240. Presidential adviser on enterpreneurship Secretary Joey Concepcion said that these 240 private companies are included in the second batch of their private sector initiative to negotiate with AstraZeneca. […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico on Monday authorized the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford for emergency use in the country, which has one of the world’s highest Covid-19 death tolls. Deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell announced on Twitter that Mexican regulators had approved the vaccine, which has also been authorized by Britain, India and Argentina. Lopez-Gastell said the vaccine could be available in March. “It depends on the private […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — An 82-year-old man on Monday became the first person in the world to receive AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s new Covid jab outside a clinical trial, raising hopes the fight against a resurgent virus will accelerate. Brian Pinker, a retired maintenance manager from Oxford in south central England, received the jab at the city’s Churchill Hospital, the National Health Service said. Sam Foster, chief nursing officer at Oxford University Hospitals NHS […]
by Anna MALPAS with AFP bureaus LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain on Monday began rolling out the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, a possible game-changer in fighting the disease worldwide, while China raced to inoculate millions with a homegrown prophylactic. Britain started the new drive with 530,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, as it struggled to control a severe wave of infections that has threatened to overwhelm the public health system and prompted the government to […]
by James PHEBY Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s low-cost Covid vaccine, raising hopes it will help tackle rising cases and ease pressure on creaking health services. The independent Medicines and Healthcare products and Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said the vaccine “met its strict standards of safety, quality and effectiveness”, and a roll-out was set for January […]
Concepcion says they hope to get 2.6M additional doses or more of vaccine, translating to 5.2M total doses (Eagle News) — The private business initiative to get more COVID-19 vaccines got a boost after the pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca agreed to give additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Philippines, aside from the earlier 2.6 million doses it had agreed to give. Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion said that AstraZeneca agreed to a “part 2” […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca’s Russian branch said Friday it would use part of Russia’s homemade Sputnik V vaccine in further clinical trials. “Today we announce a clinical trial programme to assess safety and immunogenicity of a combination of AZD1222, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, and Sputnik V, developed by Russian Gamaleya Research institute,” AstraZeneca said in a statement published on its website in English and Russian. The pharmaceutical company said […]
by Kelly MACNAMARA PARIS, France (AFP) — Oxford University and AstraZeneca on Tuesday became the first Covid-19 vaccine makers to publish final-stage clinical trial data in a scientific journal, clearing a key hurdle in the global race to produce safe and effective drugs for the coronavirus. The study, published in the respected Lancet medical journal, confirmed that the vaccine works in an average of 70 percent of cases. It comes during a flurry of positive […]
