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AstraZeneca’s novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) vaccine has been controversial, and the international project’COVAX facility’, an international project for the joint purchase of a vaccine, will refuse the vaccine on the 8th (local time). It suggested that there are no plans at this time, Reuters reported.
Seth Berkeley, CEO of the Global Vaccine and Immunity Alliance (Gavi), which leads COVAX along with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Infectious Diseases Innovation Association (CEPI), said research on the preventive effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine against the corona 19 mutant virus from South Africa is still ongoing. He said that he was in the middle.
He noted in a WHO video press briefing that a study conducted by the University of Veteransland in South Africa and the University of Oxford in the UK on the AstraZeneca vaccine had a period of 4 weeks between the first and second doses.
He explained that later evidence that the vaccine was more effective if the first and second vaccination periods were lengthened.
“WHO expects a decision on the list of urgent use of the AstraZeneca vaccine will be made in a few days,” said WHO Secretary General Thewardros Adhanom Gobrujeusus.
“We are committed to using all the available data to make this assessment,” he said. “In the meantime, Kovacs continues to prepare for the first quarter (vaccine) distribution and add vaccine portfolio.”
“Today (8th), the Expert Strategic Advisory Group (SAGE), the WHO’s immunization advisory group, met to review the AstraZeneca vaccine,” he said. “I will meet with the SAGE chairman tomorrow to discuss its recommendations.”
Previously, in phase 1 and 2 clinical trials conducted on 2,026 subjects, the two universities showed that two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine could not prevent mild and moderate symptoms due to South African mutation.
The South African government decided to withhold the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine the day before based on the results of these clinical trials.
/ Reporter Noh Hee-young [email protected]
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