AstraZeneca

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BEVERLY HILLS, May 26, (THEWILL) – The European Union accused AstraZeneca of a “flagrant violation” of its contract to rapidly build-up coronavirus production capacity in the bloc, as it began legal action against the drugs giant on Wednesday. The EU...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 22, (THEWILL) - A study in the United States, shows AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine provides strong protection against coronavirus and eliminates hospitalizations and deaths from the disease across all age groups, the company announced on Monday. AstraZeneca said its experts...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 16, (THEWILL) - In the wake of several European countries pausing its roll-out,  the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is set to be reviewed by vaccine safety experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday. Cases arose in Europe of blood clots...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 08, (THEWILL) - Health Officials in Austria have said that they would suspend the AstraZeneca batch vaccine. This was said after one 49-year-old nurse had taken the vaccine some couple of days before she died. Another woman who took...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 28, (THEWILL) - All things being equal, the Federal Government says, Nigeria will receive the first batch of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from India on Tuesday March 2. The Chairman of PTF and Secretary to the Government of...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 18, (THEWILL) - The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved the AstraZeneca Vaccine for use in Nigeria. NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, who disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja on...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 16, (THEWILL) - South Africa today said it would offer its doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to the African Union (AU) after scrapping their use due to efficacy concerns. The country suspended its vaccine rollout (meant to...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 11, (THEWILL) - Europe’s race to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines must accelerate to catch up with scientific breakthroughs and outpace emerging variants, European Commission chief, Ursula Von der Leyen said on Wednesday. “We underestimated the difficulty related to...