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US biotech company Moderna has announced it is working with government scientists there to study an experimental booster shot specifically targeting the South African variant of Covid-19. The firm has raised its global coronavirus vaccine production goal for this year by 100 million doses, it added. It has produced raw material for a booster shot aimed at tackling the strain of Covid-19 that first emerged in South Africa, which may be more.
LONDON BRIEFING: BAE Catches Up On Dividend Payments As Sales Rise
Thu, 25th Feb 2021 08:28
(Alliance News) - Aerospace and defence company BAE Systems on Thursday declared a 23.7p dividend for 2020 and similarly said it additionally will pay 13.8p as a catch-up of the 2019 final dividend that had been deferred due to Covid-19.
The good news on payouts for investors came as BAE reported profit after tax in 2020 of GBP1.37 billion, down from GBP1.53 billion in 2019. Operating profit however edged up to GBP1.93 billion from GBP1.90 billion.
Sales rose 3.7% to GBP20.86 billion from GBP20.11 billion. Order intake increase to GBP20.9 billion, and BAE said it has an order backlog of GBP45.2 billion.
The variant is considered among the more dangerous of current mutations because it evades some of the blocking action of antibodies that target the older coronavirus strain.