In the u. S. State. Trials for one of the worlds leading Coronavirus Vaccine contenders have been put on hold astra zeneca says a patient has a potentially unexplained illness which will need further investigation the pharmaceutical giant is working with Oxford University to help develop the vaccine which had begun late stage testing last week thousands are taking part in the trial in the u. K. U. S. Brazil and south africa last month astra zeneca agreed to supply the e. U. Up to 400000000 doses if the vaccine is proved safe and effective taking its global target to 3000000000. 00 well lets speak to julie fisher she is an associate Research Professor of microbiology and immunology at Georgetown Medical university she joins us now from washington d. C. Julie i know this sounds ominous to a lot of people but this is the reason you do stage 3 trials right but what does this mean for the development of this vaccine. So this is exactly as you said the reason that there are phase 3 Clinical
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Responsible for that. Live from moscow thanks so much for joining us today are not International Daniel hawkins welcomes the program. Rather putin has outlined where russia stands over the unfolding situation in belarus to remind you its nearly 3 weeks since the longstanding president there claimed and election victory for the opposition says it was rigged there have been large scale protests ever since you goes down off reports from. Russia it is important for all sides of the story here to be put out there both of the story of those who are supporting the incumbent government and those who are opposed to it you see belarus and russia are really close to each other not just geographically just the 1st layer theyre important and close to each other culturally story clear linguistically just you name it in many many aspects so according to the russian president for most school it is important. Matter as to what happens here in minsk here in belarus but at the same time Vladimir Putin ha
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