Tag: AstraZeneca

Health Secretary Sajid Javid, who has had two doses of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, is self-isolating after he tested positive for the virus. He says that his symptoms are "very mild".

As infections surge during winter in the 'Zero Covid' state, the national Government in Australia finally accepts that trying to keep Covid out forever is no way to run a country.

The E.U.'s vaccine passport doesn't just make life difficult for the unvaccinated. Millions of vaccinated Brits do not qualify because they were given an Indian-made AstraZeneca vaccine not yet approved in the E.U.

Australia will gradually phase out the use of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine in its national vaccine roll-out because of safety concerns.

Four British men aged between 20 and 57 have developed a condition that can cause paralysis and can even be life-threatening shortly after taking the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine.

The E.U. has failed in a legal attempt to secure 120 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine – yet it still claims victory on the basis that the ruling demonstrates the drugmaker's failure to meet its commitments.

People who have had the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, or no vaccine at all, are to be barred from upcoming Bruce Springsteen concerts in New York.

Australia's health regulator has recommended that the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is only given to people aged over 60 following new reports of blood clotting, almost half of which occurred in people over the age of 60.

In its third weekly vaccine surveillance report, PHE revises down its estimate of AZ efficacy to a lower bound of 65%. Are Government scientists becoming worried about the fitness of their "workhorse" vaccine?

Prof Devi Sridhar, who advises the Scottish Government on Covid, has U-turned on the efficacy of the AstraZeneca vaccine against variants (she now believes it works), and says "we must move away from harsh lockdowns".