{"id":35603,"date":"2020-12-31T09:52:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T04:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=35603"},"modified":"2020-12-31T09:52:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T04:22:46","slug":"uk-clears-astrazeneca-oxford-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=35603","title":{"rendered":"UK clears AstraZeneca\/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LONDON: <\/strong>UK on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca as it battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus.<br \/>\nAstraZeneca said the authorisation was for a two dose regime, and that the vaccine had been approved for use for emergency supply. UK has ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government has today accepted the recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to authorise Oxford University\/AstraZeneca\u2019s Covid-19 vaccine for use,\u201d the health ministry said.<br \/>\nThe pandemic has already killed 1.7 million people around the world, sown chaos through the global economy and upended normal life for billions since it began in Wuhan, China, a year ago.<br \/>\nUK and South Africa in particular are grappling with new variants of the coronavirus, which the government and scientists say are more contagious; many countries have responded by banning passenger flights and blocking trade.<br \/>\nAstraZeneca and other developers have said they are studying the impact of the new variant but expect that their shots will be effective against it.<br \/>\nRegulatory endorsement is a welcome boost for AstraZeneca and the Oxford team, which have been accused of a lack of clarity about the results from late-stage trials.<br \/>\nPooled results from those trials show it had overall efficacy was 70.4%. Efficacy was 62% for trial participants given two full doses, but 90% for a smaller sub-group given a half, then a full dose.<br \/>\nResearchers said that the finding of 90% efficacy for the low-dose\/high-dose regime needed more investigation. AstraZeneca did not specify which dose regime had been approved.<br \/>\n\u201cToday is an important day for millions of people in the UK who will get access to this new vaccine,\u201d AstraZeneca Chief Executive Pascal Soriot said.<br \/>\n\u201cIt has been shown to be effective, well-tolerated, simple to administer and is supplied by AstraZeneca at no profit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: UK on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca as it battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus. AstraZeneca said the authorisation was for a two dose regime, and that the vaccine had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}