Protesting UK students show solidarity with US peers as Belgian and Dutch students join Gaza protest wave
Oxford, UK Reuters British students set up pro-Palestinian protest encampments on Oxford and Cambridge universities’ historic campuses on a cloudy spring Monday, in a show of solidarity with their American peers. By early morning, students had erected dozens of brightly coloured tents on the lawns outside the relatively dull, yellow, 19th-century neo-Gothic Oxford University Museum […]
Australia approves AstraZeneca vaccine, bolstering inoculation program
Sydney, Australia Reuters Australia’s medical regulator granted provisional approval for AstraZeneca Plc’s COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, bolstering a national inoculation program it plans to begin rolling out next week. The vaccine boost came as Australia’s second-most populous state neared the likely end of a five-day snap lockdown sparked by a fresh cluster of cases. A […]
WHO approves AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The World Health Organization on Monday listed AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, widening access to the relatively inexpensive shot in the developing world. “We now have all the pieces in place for the rapid distribution of vaccines. But we still need to scale up production,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, […]
Greta Thunberg’s generation most likely to believe climate change is a crisis: poll
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg’s generation cares more about the climate than her parents’ and grandparents’, the biggest survey ever on global warming found, confirming what many people already suspected. Released on Wednesday, the poll organised by Oxford University and the United Nations used pop-up surveys on online games like Angry Birds […]
UK rolls out AstraZeneca shots, touts taking lead in global vaccine race
London, UK Reuters Britain began vaccinating its population with the COVID-19 shot developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca on Monday, touting a scientific “triumph” that puts it at the vanguard of the West in inoculating against the virus. Britain, which is rushing to vaccinate its population faster than the United States and the rest of […]
India approves two COVID-19 vaccines; US death toll passes 350,000; UK looks to more onerous restrictions
New Delhi, India AP India authorised two COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday, paving the way for a huge inoculation program to stem the coronavirus pandemic in the world’s second-most populous country. India’s drugs regulator gave an emergency authorization for the vaccines developed by Oxford University and UK-based drugmaker AstraZeneca and another developed by the Indian company […]
Britain first to approve AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine
London, UK Reuters Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca as it battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus. AstraZeneca said the authorisation was for a two dose regime and that the vaccine […]
COVID-19 vaccine roll-out expected in less than three months in UK – The Times
Bengaluru, IndiaReuters A mass roll-out of a COVID-19 vaccine in Britain could be finished in as little as three months, the Times reported, citing government scientists. Scientists working on the Oxford vaccine hope regulators approve it before the beginning of 2021, the newspaper said. A full COVID-19 immunization programme, which would exclude children, could be […]
Immunisation ethics: How the quest for a COVID-19 vaccine raises healthy questions and thoughtful responses
Three Australian prelates recently raised concerns over the origins of one of the proposed coronavirus vaccines. JO KADLECEK looks at the ethical issues involved…
AstraZeneca puts leading COVID-19 vaccine trial on hold over safety concern
Reuters AstraZeneca Plc on Tuesday said it has paused global trials, including large late-stage trials, of its experimental coronavirus vaccine because of an unexplained illness in a study participant. The vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, has been widely seen as one of the leading global candidates against the coronavirus, and the suspension of […]