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Australia's CSL unable to simultaneously make Novavax, AstraZeneca vaccines
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Australia's CSL unable to simultaneously make Novavax, AstraZeneca vaccines

  • Australian biotech CSL is already under contract to locally make 50 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, and is currently churning out more than a million doses a week.
  • Australia is relying on deliveries from Pfizer after restricting the use of AstraZeneca's shot in April in people below 50 years due to rare blood-clotting cases.
Published 20 May, 2021 06:11pm
South Korea signs with Pfizer for additional 40mn COVID-19 vaccine doses
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South Korea signs with Pfizer for additional 40mn COVID-19 vaccine doses

  • It added that it had secured a total 192 million doses of vaccines, including those from Moderna Inc, AstraZeneca PLC, Johnson & Johnson's and Novavax.
  • "The government has acquired COVID-19 vaccines large enough to vaccinate approximately 100 million people...(which) is double the entire population of South Korea," Health Minister Kwon Deok-cheol told a briefing.
Published 24 Apr, 2021 05:58pm
Indian shares rebound
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Indian shares rebound

BENGALURU: Indian shares ended more than 1% higher on Tuesday after the government moved to fast-track approvals for...
Published 14 Apr, 2021 03:21am
Rich nations stockpiling a billion more COVID-19 vaccine shots than needed: Report
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Rich nations stockpiling a billion more COVID-19 vaccine shots than needed: Report

  • In an analysis of current supply deals for COVID-19 vaccines, the ONE Campaign said wealthy countries, such as the United States and Britain, should share the excess doses to “supercharge” a fully global response to the pandemic.
  • On Thursday, the World Health Organization urged nations with vaccines not to share them unilaterally, but to donate them to the global COVAX scheme to ensure fairness.
Updated 19 Feb, 2021 02:55pm