Coronavirus live news: South Australia confirms three local cases, US hits daily world record again
US records 177,000 new cases, according to Johns Hopkins University; zero new infections in Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria
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Ugur Sahin, chief executive of BioNTech, which has announced promising preliminary results of its coronavirus vaccine with Pfizer, said the companies did not see any serious side effects of the jab.
He said the “key side effects” seen so far were a mild to moderate pain in the injection site for a few days, while some of the participants had a mild to moderate fever for a similar period.
“We did not see any other serious side effects which would result in pausing or halting of the study” he told the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show.
“We have now safety data for a proportion of the subjects for more than two months, and we are continuing to collect data for more than two years, to not only see the short and mid-term side effect profile but also the long-term side effect profile.
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