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Britain recommends not using Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine for under-30s

Britain recommends not using Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine for under-30s

Published 07 Apr, 2021 08:09pm
  • "We are not advising a stop to any vaccination for any individual in any age group. We are advising a preference for one vaccine over another vaccine for a particular age group, really out of the utmost caution, rather than because we have any serious safety concerns," he said at a briefing. It came after Britain's MHRA medicine regulator identified a possible side-effect from the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca involving rare brain blood clotting.
AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine more effective with longer dose gap: study

AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine more effective with longer dose gap: study

Published 19 Feb, 2021 09:17pm
  • The study confirmed the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker's findings from earlier this month that showed the vaccine had 76% efficacy against symptomatic coronavirus infection for three months after the first dose.
  • Efficacy was found to be at 81% with the longer interval of 12 weeks between the first and second dose, compared with 55% efficacy up to the six-week gap.
South Africa offers AstraZeneca jabs to AU

South Africa offers AstraZeneca jabs to AU

Published 17 Feb, 2021 11:06am
  • "The first batch of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines have arrived at OR Tambo International Airport," Mkhize tweeted as the precious cargo landed in the financial capital Johannesburg.
Different age rules for Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in EU

Different age rules for Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in EU

Published 08 Feb, 2021 08:32pm
  • Some EU countries, though, have limited its use to people under 65 because of a lack of data for older people in clinical trials for the shot.
  • Countries that have recommended the vaccine's use for people between 18 and 64 years old:
Oxford says COVID-19 vaccine with AstraZeneca works against UK variant

Oxford says COVID-19 vaccine with AstraZeneca works against UK variant

Published 05 Feb, 2021 07:38pm
  • Britain had said that it believed the vaccines were effective against variants that are circulating in the UK.
  • Data from our trials of the ChAdOx1 vaccine in the United Kingdom indicate that the vaccine not only protects against the original pandemic virus.
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