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The Health Secretary has been forced to plunge more areas into lockdown as he warned another fast-spreading strain of the virus had been discovered. But he said the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine was on the brink of being approved and hoped the vast majority of jabs could be given early next year. Mr Hancock told a Downing Street news conference: “I believe that everybody will do what is needed to keep themselves and others safe, especially this Christmas, and I know from the bo
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New COVID-19 strain in UK should be monitored, scientist in Malta says
Scientists at the Bio Arte laboratories say they will continue to monitor developments in the UK
22 December 2020, 10:50am
by Laura Calleja
Scientists at the Bio Arte laboratories at the Life Sciences Park have advised that the new strain of COVID-19 identified in the UK should be monitored in Malta.
UK scientists have isolated a new strain of the COVID-19 and shared the information on the global database for other scientists to study. “The impact of the new strain is not yet known but it is understood to be up to 70% more highly infective. This means that, despite all government measures to slow the spread of the virus in the UK, numbers may continue to remain as they are,” Manuele Biazzo, Scientific Director of the Bio Arte laboratories at the Life Sciences Park, said.
Origin Agritech Comments on Recent Regulatory Developments in China and Updates Shareholders on its Pipeline of Traits
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BEIJING, Dec. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/
Origin Agritech Ltd. (NASDAQ: SEED) (the Company or Origin ), an agriculture technology company, today is updating shareholders on recent developments out of China regarding the path to GMO commercialization in the country and also on the status of the approval process for its different seed traits.
Last Friday, December 18
th, in an historic statement out of the Central Economic Work Conference, an annual gathering of top leaders and policymakers that plot the country s economic course for the following year, top CCP leaders said that they will industrialize biotech breeding as a part of a campaign to improve food security. Origin Agritech commends the government on this move toward GMO positive and stands by ready, as one of the top GMO seed companies in China, to rise to the cha