The UK government said on Friday it had signed deals for a further 90 million doses of coronavirus vaccines as the country raced to secure supplies of experimental shots to combat the pandemic. Under the new agreements in principle, the American medicine developer Novavax NVAX, + 7.12% will supply 60 …
Read More »Novavax stock jumps on vaccinated deal with South Korean firm
Text size Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg Novavax said it has a deal with SK Bioscience to produce the antigen component of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate during the pandemic period. The stock jumped more than 9% Thursday morning. Novavax (ticker: NVAX) said its development and supply agreement with the South Korean …
Read More »Russia offered help with vaccine against coronavirus, US denied: report
Russia offered to help US with coronavirus vaccine, but US refused, Russian officials told CNN Thursday. Russian officials told the network they were proposing “unusual cooperation” with US Operation Warp Speed, the initiative to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. But Russian officials said the “US is not currently open” for its …
Read More »Exclusive: US recruits overseas scientists for COVID-19 vaccine trials, promised access to supply
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s coronavirus vaccine project is recruiting scientists in South Africa and Latin America to test for possible vaccines in U.S.-backed clinical trials, and deploying them to access their countries to all successful products , Reuters has learned. FILE PHOTO: A volunteer receives an injection from …
Read More »The heiress of Racehorse Dynasty may be the key to delivering COVID-19 vaccine
The heir to a purebred dog dynasty in India is likely to be the key to bringing the world a COVID-19 cure – with its fax manufacturing company scaled up to help produce more than a billion doses of each effective candidate. Adar Poonawalla, CEO of the Serum Institute of …
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