After Astra Zeneca, it is Moderna’s turn to announce fewer vaccine deliveries: 150,000 doses will not arrive in French freezers in February (a quarter less than expected). Meanwhile, the United Kingdom is rubbing its hands: the country has three vaccines and soon a fourth, produced in the north of England. The United Kingdom has already secured 60 million doses of this new vaccine, developed by the American Novavax but manufactured in Stockton-on-Tees, in the north-east of England. This two-dose vaccine would be more than 89% effective against Covid-19, according to the results of phase 3 trials, communicated by the American group. The efficacy of the vaccine by strain of the coronavirus was estimated at 95.6% against the original strain, and at 85.6% against the variant that appeared in the United Kingdom. But the efficacy appears much lower in a smaller study conducted in South Africa. This is already “good news”, said Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday after a visit to Scotland where the vaccine question strained relations with Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish Prime Minister, also leader of the separatists. While the British government remains on target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, Nicola Sturgeon, who wants to return to the EU and who hates Boris Johnson, one of the architects of Brexit, threatens to reveal the data sensitive to the arrival of vaccines in the United Kingdom, in full arm-wrestling with the European Union on the vaccine issue.
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Astra Zeneca’s vaccine is found under the microscope of the European Union: The drug agency examines its data, before a marketing authorization. The pharmaceutical group is in turmoil, attacked by Brussels on its effectiveness in the elderly and its production delays.
While waiting for new health restrictions and a possible re-containment, a prize list but no public this evening at the international comic book festival in Angoulême: Edition postponed to June, if the health situation allows. But the authors plan to boycott the meeting to denounce the precariousness in the profession. Because while sales increased by 9% last year, a third of cartoonists live below the poverty line.
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Despite the weeks of bookstores closed during the first lockdown, the comic book saw its sales increase by 9% last year According to figures from the GFK institute, one in six books purchased last year was a comic. The increase in sales has especially benefited the most famous authors like Jul for his “Lucky Luke” or Riad Sattouf, for the 5th part of “The Arab of the future”. But it is the tree that hides the forest. At the time when the prize list of the Angoulême festival will be revealed this evening, more than 600 authors are signing a platform denouncing the precariousness in the profession: Catherine Meurisse, Fab Caro, Pascal Rabaté, Marion Montaigne, or even the author of the graphic novel “Portugal” and “L’Age d’or”, Cyril Pedrosa at the microphone of Benoît Grossin. Cyril Pedrosa, who has just presented his latest album, produced with Loïc Sécheresse, “Carnet de Manif, Portraits d’une France en marche”, was at Librairie Libertalia, in Montreuil, near Paris, last Sunday. Signing session in small groups, in the absence of a large festival; dedications which Benoît Grossin attended. Reportae
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