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British Ambassador to Argentina Mark Kent (left), Health Minister Carla Vizzotti and Preisdential Advisor Cecilia Nicolini. | TELAM
In a bid to unblock production delays emanating from Mexico, President Alberto Fernández’s government has offered to manufacture the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine against Covid-19 domestically.
The proposal was made to the United Kingdom and the British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm last Monday, during a 40-minute meeting at the Casa Rosada with British Ambassador to Argentina Mark Kent. Health Minister Carla Vizzotti and special advisor Cecilia Nicolini outlined the offer, while also addressing delayed vaccine deliveries from the lab.
Argentina is already manufacturing the Russian-made Sputnik V jab and co-signed an agreement last year with AstraZeneca and Mexico, with the two Latin American nations hoping to produce hundreds of millions of doses to be used in the region.
PIO woman elected president of Oxford student union
NAOMI CANTON | TNN | Updated: May 24, 2021, 14:08 IST
Avnee Bhutani, OUSU president.
LONDON: Anvee Bhutani, a Punjabi whose family is from Delhi, has been elected president of Oxford university student union (OUSU) in a by-election. The by-election took place after the previous winner, the first Indian female OUSU president-elect Rashmi Samant, from Karnataka, was forced to quit after a public apology she made for historic social media posts was not accepted by students.
Bhutani won by 655 votes after 11 stages of counting in a close contest with Yannis Baur, social secretary of the OU LGBTQ+ society, who got 649 votes. Bhutani is a second-year human sciences undergraduate student at Magdalen College. She is co-chair of the Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality, president of the Oxford India Society and treasurer of the Oxford Hindu Society, all of which came out with public statements condemning Samant, causing her to st
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LONDON: Two doses from either the Oxford/AstraZeneca or the Pfizer vaccine are over 80 per cent effective in preventing infection from the B1.617.2 variant of Covid-19, first discovered in India, a new UK government study has reportedly found.
The Oxford/AstraZeneca two-dose vaccine is also being produced by the Serum Institute of India as Covishield and being administered among the adult population in India to protect against the deadly virus.
The UK findings are said to be based on data from Public Health England (PHE) and have also revealed that the two doses provide 87 per cent protection from the B.117 variant, first discovered in Kent region of England and also considered highly transmissible.