カテゴリー: AstraZeneca
India, Egypt and Cuba among first states to develop and make their own vaccines as Covax falls behind Developing countries are increasingly turning to homegrown Covid vaccinations as the UN-backed Covax programme falls behind.While western countries ro…
President says agreement with German firm BioNTech has been delayed after Beijing interventionCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTaiwan’s president has accused China of interfering in its vaccine acquisition programme, as the i…
Efforts in Africa and elsewhere hit by decision not to export Serum’s AstraZeneca jab until end of yearCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageVaccine programmes across Africa and much of the developing world will suffer big delays …
US now supports bid to allow poorer nations to make cheap copies of vaccines, but Australia is holding out • US declares support for patent waiver on Covid-19 vaccinesPressure is mounting on Australia to support the waiver of intellectual property prot…
Only a fifth of doses expected by May delivered as export bans, hoarding and supply shortages biteCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe global vaccine-sharing initiative Covax has so far delivered about one in five of the Oxfo…
This is what happens when a third of humanity depends on one manufacturer for Covid jabs. We need to waive patents nowAs the UK’s vaccination programme was “knocked off course” due to a delay in receiving five million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine f…
Serum Institute boss Adar Poonawalla has rented a Mayfair mansion for £50,000 a weekCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe AstraZeneca vaccine has made Prof Sarah Gilbert – who led the Oxford team that created it – one of the U…
Ministers accused of ‘moving goalposts’ and wrongly taking credit for success of immunisation programmeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson has sought to reassure the public over the vaccine programme as NHS leaders…
World Health Organization tells countries to continue using jab while it looks into blood clot reportsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA World Health Organization expert advisory committee is looking at the Oxford/AstraZeneca…
At Port Moresby’s general hospital, 40% of mothers admitted to the labour ward tested positive for Covid-19Papua New Guinea will not get its first Covid-19 vaccines until next month at the earliest, despite an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak spiralli…
Japan has secured 144m shots of the vaccine, but it does not have enough of the specialised syringes to be able to draw six shots from each vialCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMillions of people in Japan will not receive Pfi…
AstraZeneca says it has not discussed ‘emergency use authorisation’ with the US Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe company manufacturing the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine has denied it is in talks with the Trump adm…