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German leader Angela Merkel has mixed and matched her Covid jabs. The 66-year-old Chancellor had the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in April, soon after Germany recommended it only for people aged 60 and over. On Tuesday her spokesman said she had the Moderna jab ‘a few days ago’. Germany now practises ‘vaccine crossing’ which allows people to […]
UK’s Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has sold its 7.7% stake in Moderna for more than USD $1 billion after the US biotechnology company’s shares soared on the back of its coronavirus vaccine breakthrough. The Times reported that it was not clear over what period British-based AstraZeneca sold its holding in Moderna. AstraZeneca is however retaining partnership […]
Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are scrambling to test their COVID-19 vaccines against the new fast-spreading variant of the virus that is raging in Britain. Ugur Sahin, chief executive of Germany’s BioNTech, which with partner Pfizer took less than a year to get a vaccine approved, said on Tuesday he needs another two weeks to know if […]
The United States approved Moderna as the country’s second Covid-19 vaccine, clearing the way for millions of doses to be released. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised the US-made jab about a week after approving a Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine which is now being distributed. The US has agreed to purchase 200 million doses of Moderna, […]
American biotechnology company, Moderna will charge governments between $25 and $37 per dose of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, depending on the amount ordered, Chief Executive Stephane Bancel told German weekly Welt am Sonntag. “Our vaccine therefore costs about the same as a flu shot, which is between $10 and $50,” he was quoted as saying. […]