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In new breakthrough, Moderna's Covid vaccine nearly 95% effective

16-11-2020 12:58 US biotech firm Moderna on Monday announced its experimental vaccine against Covid-19 was almost 95 percent effective, another major breakthrough in the quest to end the pandemic.

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Vaccine innovation sparks hope, questions

10-11-2020 16:51 Reports that one of the vaccines for Covid-19 has shown highly promising results are a ray of hope for a world in the shadow of surging virus cases.

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Pfizer says Covid-19 vaccine 90% effective in Phase 3 trial

09-11-2020 09:05 A vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer and BioNTech was 90% effective in preventing Covid-19 infections in ongoing Phase 3 trials, the companies announced Monday.

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Argentina agrees to buy 25 million doses of Russia's Covid-19 vaccine

03-11-2020 02:16 President Fernández reveals in interview with Russian news agency that government will receive initial 10 million doses of Sputnik V vaccine by as early as December, should it clear clinical trials.

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AstraZeneca pauses Covid-19 vaccine trial after unexplained illness

08-09-2020 21:54 Pharmaceutical company says it has"voluntarily paused" a randomised clinical trial of its coronavirus vaccine, in what it called a routine action after a volunteer developed an unexplained illness.

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Argentina and Mexico to produce coronavirus vaccine for Latin America

15-08-2020 11:15 President Alberto Fernández confirms Argentina and Mexico will co-produce millions of doses of a coronavirus vaccine developed by scientists at the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca.

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Clinical trials of equine serum for Covid-19 patients begin

28-07-2020 15:21 Argentina this week started clinical tests on patients using a hyperimmune solution based on equine serum, a potential medicament for treating people with Covid-19.