EXPLAINED: AstraZeneca s COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and expiry dates How can government extend a vaccine expiry date? Why didn t government know sooner it wasn t working? Your AstraZeneca vaccine questions answered. A handout picture released by the University of Oxford on 23 November 2020 shows a technician working on the University s COVID-19 candidate vaccine, co-invented by the University of Oxford and Vaccitech in partnership with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. Picture: John Cairns/University of Oxford/AFP
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JOHANNESBURG - In a statement released by Wits University on Sunday afternoon, trial investigators said that the AstraZeneca vaccine had high efficacy against the original coronavirus for people who had mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms. But 501Y.V2 - the second variant of the virus first sequenced in South Africa and now the dominant variant in the country - did not see
SA halts rollout of AstraZeneca vaccine over efficacy against second variant Early scientific data released on Sunday revealed that the vaccine offered minimal protection against mild disease for people infected with the second variant of the coronavirus discovered at the end of last year. FILE: The University of Oxford and drug manufacturer AstraZeneca have developed a COVID-19 vaccine. Picture: AFP.
CAPE TOWN - South Africa has put a hold on the rollout of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize last night announced that a team of experts would give guidance on the way forward with this vaccine.
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