{"id":329852,"date":"2020-12-30T09:28:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T09:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329852"},"modified":"2020-12-30T09:28:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T09:28:40","slug":"uk-approves-oxford-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/uk-approves-oxford-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"UK approves Oxford-AstraZeneca&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329853 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/astra-zeneka.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/astra-zeneka.jpg 669w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/astra-zeneka-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/astra-zeneka-646x420.jpg 646w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/>The Oxford University\/AstraZeneca\u2019s coronavirus vaccine has been approved by the United Kingdom regulator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The country&#8217;s health ministry announced that the UK government has accepted the recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to authorise the Oxford University\/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Government in a statement said that it had today accepted the recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to authorise Oxford University\/AstraZeneca\u2019s Covid-19 vaccine for use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This follows rigorous clinical trials and a thorough analysis of the data by experts at the MHRA, which has concluded that the vaccine has met its strict standards of safety, quality and effectiveness, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a tweet said, \u201cIt is truly fantastic news &#8211; and a triumph for British science &#8211; that the @UniofOxford \/@AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for use. We will now move to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Health Secretary Matt Hancock said, \u201cBrilliant to end 2020 with such a moment of hope: the @UniofOxford \/ @AstraZeneca #coronavirus vaccine has today been authorised for use by @mhragovuk. The coronavirus vaccine is our way out of the pandemic &#8211; now we need to hold our nerve while we get through this together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The NHS has a clear vaccine delivery plan and decades of experience in delivering large scale vaccination programmes. It has already vaccinated hundreds of thousands of patients with the Pfizer\/BioNTech vaccine and its roll out will continue. Now the NHS will begin putting their extensive preparations into action to roll out the Oxford University\/AstraZeneca vaccine, according to the statement.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford University\/AstraZeneca\u2019s coronavirus vaccine has been approved by the United Kingdom regulator. The country&#8217;s health ministry announced that the UK government has accepted the recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to authorise the Oxford University\/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for use. The Government in a statement said that it had today accepted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[13817,1783],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329854,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329852\/revisions\/329854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}