COVID-19 vaccines: Could Novavax win over some religious sceptics?
Novavax’s CEO has framed his company’s vaccine as an alternative for those who object to the use of fetal cell lines in the development of existing popular vaccines. JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports…
Australia enters agreement to buy 51 million doses of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine
Reuters The government of Australia has signed an advanced agreement to purchase 51 million doses of Novavax Inc’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing on Thursday. Australia will have the option to purchase up to an additional 10 million doses, with the initial doses expected to be delivered by mid-2021, the […]
New Zealand plans vaccine roll-out in second half of 2021
Wellington, New ZealandReuters New Zealand will begin to offer free COVID-19 vaccines to its entire population by the middle of next year, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday. The government said it had secured enough vaccines to inoculate all of the country’s five million people, with two new agreements signed with pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca […]
Australia signs two more COVID-19 vaccine deals
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia signed two deals on Thursday to buy 40 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Novavax and 10 million from Pfizer and BioNTech as the country’s virus hot spot reported zero cases for the sixth straight day. Thursday’s agreements follow deals in September worth $A1.7 billion with AstraZeneca and CSL Ltd for a […]