Corona Virus: Britain Deals 9Cr Dose With Vaccine Companies Of France And Germany
Coronavirus Vaccine Deal: In order to get the corona virus vaccine as soon as possible, the UK has entered into deals with companies that are currently working on the vaccine. The UK has signed 90 million doses with companies in Germany and France.
Britain’s Oxford University has successfully achieved the first trial of the corona virus vaccine on humans. Now the UK government has decided to invest millions of rupees in two more experimental vaccines. The government will buy 9 crore doses of two vaccines. It will be given to frontline health workers and care staff. Earlier, the government had already bought 100 million doses of the vaccine of Oxford. The government is also appealing to the people to participate in the COVID-19 vaccine trial. To the government.
German company mRNA vaccine
Business secretary Alok Sharma says the UK government has signed a deal to buy 30 million doses of mRNA vaccine from German company BioNTech and pharmaceutical company Pfizer. This vaccine recently had successful results in the first phase trial. This also created immunity and was found to be safe. However, some side effects were observed when giving high doses.
Deal with the french company too
The second vaccine is from the French company Valneva. With this Britain has signed a deal of 60 million doses. If this vaccine is found to be effective and successful, the government can buy 4 crores more doses. Sharma feels that the discovery of the vaccine is an international goal and the government is making every effort to provide a safe and effective vaccine to the British as soon as possible.
He says that by partnering with the best pharmaceutical and vaccine companies in the world, the government has a greater chance of acquiring a vaccine that can save those facing the most danger.
‘Participation in vaccine research is an opportunity to save millions’
The country’s Health Minister Matt Hancock says a safe and effective vaccine is the greatest hope of defeating the corona virus and returning to normal life. He has said that some of the best scientists and researchers are working on the vaccine but the public also has a big role in it. He appealed people to sign up for NHS Kovid-19 vaccine research.
He has said that with this every volunteer will be able to contribute to save the lives of millions of people of the world and end the epidemic.
Oxford-Astrazeneca success
Oxford, in collaboration with AstraZeneca, has succeeded in the first trial of the vaccine AZD1222 on humans. Its data will be published soon. Volunteers to whom it was given were found to have antibodies against the virus in their body as well as white blood cells Killer T-cells which give the body immunity for longer.
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