ZURICH—Austrian authorities have suspended inoculations with a batch of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of one person and the illness of another after the shots, a health agency said on March 7. “The Federal Office for Safety in Health Care (BASG) has received two reports in a temporal connection with…
Austria Suspends Use of AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Batch After Death
Feds Hoping for AstraZeneca Shots This Week as Pfizer BioNTech Prepare Next Delivery
OTTAWA—The federal government hopes to start receiving doses of AstraZeneca’s recently approved COVID-19 vaccine this week as the flood of shots that flowed into Canada from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna last week partially subsides. Health Canada announced on Friday that it had approved the AstraZeneca vaccine, the third COVID-19 shot to have received regulatory approval since…
Health Canada Approves AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine
OTTAWA—Health Canada has approved the COVID−19 vaccine from AstraZeneca, the third to be given the green light for national use. Details of the approval and when Canadians might see doses begin arriving are due at a technical briefing later this morning in Ottawa. Canada has pre−ordered 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was…
Australia Begins CCP Virus Vaccine Rollout
Australia began rolling out vaccinations against the CCP virus on Monday, after a soft launch on Sunday, saw some frontline workers and the elderly, along with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, receive the Pfizer jab one day ahead of schedule. Aged care resident Jane Malysiak, 84, from Marayong in New South Wales (NSW), was the first…
UN Authorizes AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use
TORONTO—The World Health Organization has granted an emergency authorization to AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, a move that should allow the U.N. agency’s partners to ship millions of doses to countries worldwide as part of a U.N.-backed program to tame the pandemic. In a statement Monday, the WHO said it was clearing the AstraZeneca vaccines made by…
Not Perfect, but Saves Lives, AstraZeneca Says of COVID-19 Vaccine
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is not perfect, but will have a big impact on the pandemic, its chief executive predicted on Thursday, as the drugmaker pledged to double supplies to more than 200 million doses per month by April. The two-dose shot, developed with Oxford University, has been hailed as a “vaccine for the world” because…
UK Remains ‘Very Confident’ in COVID-19 Vaccines: Boris Johnson
The British government remains “very confident” about the efficacy of all the COVID-19 vaccines in use in the UK, despite new research showing they are less effective against the South African variant of the CCP virus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday. “We’re very confident in all the vaccines that we’re using, and I…
UK Minister Urges Public to Keep Faith in COVID-19 Vaccines
The public can still have faith in the efficacy of vaccines despite new research showing they are less effective against the South African variant of the CCP virus, the UK’s vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Monday. A new study has found that the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine provides minimal protection against mild and moderate cases…
Oxford Vaccine Less Effective Against South African Variant, Study Finds
The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine does not appear to offer protection against mild and moderate cases of the South African variant of the CCP virus, a new study has found. In both the human trials and tests on the blood of those vaccinated, the vaccine “did not show protection against mild-moderate COVID-19” caused by the 501Y.V2 variant,…
UK ‘Past the Peak’ of Current CCP Virus Wave: Medical Officer
The UK is now “past the peak” of the current wave of the CCP virus pandemic, England’s chief medical officer has said. “Most of my colleagues think we are past the peak,” Professor Chris Whitty said on Wednesday at a press conference held in Downing Street. He was quick to warn against complacency, saying it…
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