The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved BioNTech’s Marburg site for COVID-19 vaccine production; which will become one of the largest mRNA vaccine manufacturing sites in Europe and the world. Elsewhere, additional sites are also set to produce...
As tensions over COVID-19 vaccine supplies in Europe continue, AstraZeneca clarifies that a set of doses at its Anagni plant in Italy are destined for the EU and COVAX.
AstraZeneca has released the primary analysis from its COVID-19 vaccine US Phase 3 trial, showing 76% efficacy for the vaccine against symptomatic COVID-19. The company highlights that this backs efficacy data from Monday's interim analysis, responding...
The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) says it is concerned that AstraZeneca 'may have included outdated information’ when releasing initial data from its COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial.
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was 79% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19, according to the findings of the Phase 3 study in the US, Chile and Peru, says AstraZeneca.
The European Medicine Agency (EMA) says its safety committee has ruled that COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca is safe and effective, and the benefits of its use outweigh any possible risks.
Denmark has halted its vaccination campaign with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca, as a precautionary measure while a full probe is ongoing into reports of blood clots in people who received the vaccine, including one case in that country, where a person...
This week France has raised the age limit for the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine; but Canada, conversely, has put a 65-year-old limit into its recommendations.
AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine has been granted Emergency Use Listing (EUL) by the World Health Organization (WHO): meaning the vaccine can be rolled out globally through COVAX.
While some jurisdictions have limited the use of the Oxford University / AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the WHO says it can be used even where variants are known to be in circulation and with people aged 65+.
AstraZeneca and IDT Biologika are exploring options to accelerate output of finished COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca in the second quarter of 2021 in order to help support Europe’s immediate vaccination needs during the pandemic.
The pharma giant had announced last week that it could deliver only 25% of the doses originally promised to the EU-27 for Q1 2021 due to production issues at one of its European factories. But it has now agreed to send 9m additional doses and will start...
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) today advised that AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine can be given conditional marketing authorization (CMA) in the EU to prevent COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2, in individuals 18 years of age and older.
The EU Commission has published a redacted version of the contract it signed with AstraZeneca on COVID-19 vaccine delivery in August last year, in a bid to show that the pharma giant is backtracking on its commitments.
German officials are not recommending the use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine on people aged over 65, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Belgian health authorities announced today that they visited Novasep’s plant in that country to determine if expected delays in the deliveries of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to the EU are related to production issues at that site.
EU health commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, last night again expressed dissatisfaction with the responses the EU executive has received from AstraZeneca over the company's announcement there would be significant shortfalls in the supply of its COVID-19...
AstraZeneca along with its scientific partners at the University of Oxford have rejected German media reports that their vaccine against COVID-19 has low efficacy in people aged over 65.
AstraZeneca officially announced today the Serum Institute of India had obtained emergency use authorization in India for its COVID-19 vaccine. It also confirmed the vaccine has been granted emergency use authorization in Argentina, Dominican Republic,...
New Zealand now has enough COVID-19 vaccines for everyone in the country, says the government, as it announces two new supply agreements with Novavax and AstraZeneca today.
AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine candidate threw up a surprise last month when a lower initial dose of the two-dose vaccine showed higher efficacy. More detailed results from this interim analysis, now peer-reviewed and...
The UK’s Vaccines Manufacturing & Innovation Centre (VMIC) announces that the UK Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved the second of two GMP COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing suites located at Oxford Biomedica's...
Samsung Biologics and AstraZeneca have announced a $330.8m long-term global supply agreement: helping AstraZeneca expand biologics manufacturing capabilities in Asia Pacific.
AstraZeneca has resumed UK clinical trials for its Oxford coronavirus vaccine, having paused all trials last week for a safety review. Other late-stage global trials, however, remain on hold while AstraZeneca waits for regulators in each market.
AstraZeneca has paused vaccination in all of its Oxford COVID-19 vaccine candidate trials globally, because of a potentially unexplained illness in one of the trials.
The Australian Government has made a $1.7bn AUD ($1.24bn USD) supply and production agreement for COVID-19 vaccines: with the first doses set to come from AstraZeneca’s vaccine in January 2021.