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Germany confirms booster COVID jabs will start in September

Germany's health ministry has said it will start offering booster COVID-19 vaccines to vulnerable people from next month, amid concerns about rising cases of the delta variant of the corona

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AZ's COVID-19 jab sales top $1.2bn, but come at a loss

AstraZeneca said this morning that it has made $1.2 billion in sales from its COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria in the first half of this year, but making it available at no profit had weighed on

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AZ says second COVID jab dose isn't linked to rare clot reac...

A new analysis has suggested that the rare blood clot side effects linked to AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine Vaxzevria don't occur after a second dose.

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First published data backs CanSino's inhaled COVID vaccine

Early-stage clinical data with CanSino Biologics' inhaled COVID-19 vaccine show that it was able to stimulate neutralising antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 at a dose well below that required w

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Boehringer takes alteplase to phase 3 for COVID, but drops a...

Boehringer Ingelheim's latecomer antibody therapy for COVID-19 has been side-lined, as the company focuses its attention on its thrombolytic drug alteplase, heading into a phase 3 programme

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