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Virginia Mayo/AP/Shutterstock Vaccines from Johnson & Johnson and Novavax report positive trial results A coronavirus vaccine developed by the US firm Novavax has been shown to be 89 per cent effective in preventing covid-19 in clinical trials. The trials included participants in the UK and South Africa, and found the vaccine to be 86 per cent effective against the UK variant of the virus, but only 60 per cent effective against the variant in South Africa. Novavax said it will immediately begin development on a vaccine specifically targeted to the South African variant. Advertisement Janssen,...

Lockdown exposes inequality in Hong Kong, deaths cross 1 lakh-mark in UK & other Covid news As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe. Angana Chakrabarti 27 January, 2021 1:29 pm IST Text Size: A+ New Delhi: The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate countries across the world — the latest count being over 10 crore cases and more than 21 lakh deaths. Lockdown in Hong Kong has exposed deep-rooted inequality. UK residents toil to cope with grief as deat...

Europe threatens to restrict vaccine exports after AstraZeneca and Pfizer hit production problems CNN 1/26/2021 By Julia Horowitz, CNN Business © Anthony Devlin/Bloomberg/Getty Images Vials of the AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford Covid-19 vaccine at the Royal Health & Wellbeing Centre in Oldham, U.K., on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Boris Johnson's government is pinning its hopes on a mass vaccination program to reduce hospitalizations and ultimately deaths, and aims to slowly lift restrictions from March to allow the economy to re-open. Photographer: Anthony Devl...

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