AstraZeneca may continue to test the covid vaccine

– The British company AstraZeneca renews clinical trials of its coronavirus vaccine, which it is developing together with researchers from Oxford University. The company received confirmation from the drug agency MHRA that it is safe to continue the tests. AstraZeneca announced on Wednesday that it had suspended the tests because one of their participants developed unspecified unexplained health problems. She did so voluntarily and according to standard procedures.

– India has recorded a record 97,570 new cases of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours. The record in the number of newly recorded infections fell on the second day in a row. According to Reuters, this means that the number of people infected in the country has exceeded 4.65 million, making India the second worst affected country in the world. But the disease is spreading faster in the country than anywhere else.

– Germany has reported 1,630 new cases of coronavirus infection in the last day. The Robert Koch Institute informed about it today. In the Czech Republic, which has about eight times less population, the number of newly infected on Friday was only less than two hundred lower – laboratories detected a record 1,447 cases. According to the Robert Koch Institute, the reproduction number in Germany rose to 1.00 from 0.9 the previous day. This means that one infected person infects an average of one other person.

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