AstraZeneca has discovered a winning formula for the efficacy of the vaccine against COVID-19 – Medicines

British pharmacist AstraZeneca has discovered the “winning formula” for the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine, which it has developed with specialists from the University of Oxford and is awaiting approval from the British government in the coming days, BTA reported. .

“We believe that we have found the winning formula to achieve the efficacy of the two-dose vaccine,” Pascal Sorio, CEO of the company, told the Sunday Times. He said the vaccine provides “100 percent protection” against severe forms of COVID-19.

EU starts vaccination against coronavirus

The British company announced in November the interim results of large-scale tests of the potential vaccine in Britain and Brazil, according to which the vaccine is 70 percent effective against a result of more than 90 percent efficiency of the vaccines. Pfizer / Biontech and Modern vaccines.

In the UK, there have been reports that the AstraZeneca vaccine may receive approval for use in the country early next week, after a permit was issued in early December for the Pfizer and Biontech vaccines.

The British government has already agreed to deliver 100 million doses of the vaccine to AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford. According to the British newspaper “Sunday Telegraph”, the distribution of the vaccine in the country will begin on January 4 and the government expects that in the first two weeks more than two million people will be immunized with the first dose of it.