Coronavirus Notebook: UK Seven-Vaccine Booster Trial Begins, Australia Plans mRNA Production Capacity
Executive Summary
The company manufacturing Russia's Sputnik V vaccine in Brazil has produced the first batch, but has withdrawn a request to run clinical trials there. France is preparing to immunize the over-18s, and Australia has begun evaluating Vir/GSK’s sotrovimab for use in COVID-19 patients.
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