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In an exclusive interview with VOA, the director of Oxford University’s Jenner Institute says their new malaria vaccine, tested in Burkina Faso, has shown a preliminary efficacy rate of 77%, which could help prevent over 400,000 deaths a year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
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St George and the Jab: From Covid to malaria, little old England is saving lives around the world
It is fitting that today, the supposedly inward-looking country we live in has produced a breakthrough to help millions around the globe
23 April 2021 • 12:31pm
As the sun beams down on a beautiful England on St George’s Day I sense a swell of taboo patriotism and national pride.
In a quintessentially stiff upper-lipped manner, underpinned by quietly concealed exceptionalism, most Englanders won’t be flying the George cross or extolling the virtues of their motherland today. The oft promised bank holiday is long lost in the annals of dusty manifestos while without social media, most of us would probably have no idea it was our patron saint day at all. Those that do remember are more likely to bang on about the fact that Saint George was Turkish or fall over themselves to remind everybody that we are the result of centuries of immigration and our national dish is vind
23 Apr 2021 - 20:23
Professor Adrian Hill to members of the media at The Jenner Institute in Oxford, England January 16, 2015. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh/File Photo
Reuters
LONDON: One of the Oxford scientists who co-developed AstraZeneca s COVID-19 vaccine defended its safety on Friday and said he was not worried that some countries had opted to restrict its use amid concerns about a possible link to very rare side effects.
Adrian Hill, director of the Oxford University s Jenner Institute, said teams around the world were working to pin down any potential mechanism for what might be causing the blood clots, using real world data now so many shots have been administered.
Almost 900,000 people are being reported infected every day now, as India s uncontrolled outbreak worsens.
The global daily death toll is beginning to approach the terrible highs of early January.
Here s the latest on the pandemic from around the world overnight.
Asia-Pacific
India
India on Friday posted the world s largest daily COVID-19 caseload for a second day, with 332,730 new cases and 2263 deaths, as the pandemic spiralled out of control. Both figures likely vastly underestimate the true scope of the outbreak. Mass cremations have been taking place as the crematoriums have run out of space. The situation in India is a devastating reminder of what the virus can do, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing in Geneva.
Malaria vaccine hailed as possible breakthrough By Haley Ott
April 23, 2021 / 12:15 PM / CBS News
A new vaccine against malaria has proven highly effective in trials, raising new hope that one of the world s deadliest diseases could be brought under control. According to the World Health Organization, malaria sickens around 230 million people a year and kills around 400,000, the majority of whom are children under the age of five. These are very exciting results showing unprecedented efficacy levels from a vaccine that has been well tolerated in our trial programme, said Halidou Tinto, director of the Institute of Research in Health Sciences and the trial s lead investigator, said in a statement put out by Oxford University.