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Moderna said that its coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine is showing promising results against the Delta variant. Tests reportedly showed the vaccine led to an antibody response against all the studies variants, the company announced on Tuesday. The Delta variant was first discovered in India and appeared in many countries, leading to …

The health authorities in the United Kingdom announced the highest rate of infection with the Corona virus since January 30, as the authorities recorded about 22,868 new confirmed cases of the Coronavirus in just one day. This sudden rise in new cases of Coronavirus in the United Kingdom is due …

The US Food and Drug Administration said it has authorized emergency use of Actemra to treat adult and pediatric COVID-19 patients in hospitals, and an emergency use authorization has been issued to Genentech, a unit of Roche Holdings Inc. The Food and Drug Administration said the drug could be used …

Biotech company Novavax said today that its COVID-19 vaccine has been shown to be 90.4% safe and effective overall in phase 3 clinical trials for nearly 30,000 participants across the United States and Mexico. Also, it was found that the two-dose vaccine is 100% effective in preventing moderate and severe …

British Health Minister Matt Hancock said Wednesday, June 2 that his country is in talks with Oxford and AstraZeneca to obtain additional doses of their vaccine against the Corona virus, which has been modified to better target the (beta) strain of the emerging corona virus that first appeared in South …

Moderna said its vaccine for Covid-19 was 100% effective in a study of adolescents aged 12-17 years as the second vaccine after Pfizer to prove highly effective in younger age groups. The company is seeking FDA approval by next June.

The head of the medical sector in the Canadian province of Alberta said in a statement that the province witnessed the first death related to the AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 disease. Late on Tuesday, he said that a woman in her 50s had died after being injected with the vaccine. …

AstraZeneca reported a 100% year-on-year increase in earnings per share for Q1 of 2021, to $1.19. The company achieved strong revenue growth of 15% in Q1 of 2021 to $7.3 billion, excluding a contribution from the pandemic vaccine COVID-19, revenue growth increased by 11% to $7.04 billion.

A court in Brussels has begun hearing a lawsuit filed by the European Commission against the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca over supplies of its Covid-19 vaccine, as the cartel’s lawyers are pressing for immediate delivery of doses from all factories, including those in Britain. The case is the latest turning point …

Japanese stocks closed lower on Friday, April 23, as tighter government restrictions to contain COVID-19 infections raised concerns about the economy’s recovery, while disappointing expectations from nedec reinforced the cautious atmosphere at the start of the corporate earnings announcements season. The Nikkei index fell 0.57% to close at 29020.63 points, …