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A leading global pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca has secured the prestigious Top Employer and Best Place to Work certifications across key African markets, setting the standard for excellence in workplace practices. READ ALSO: …

Kenya will offer Covid-19 booster shots to individuals six months after their initial shots, the health ministry said in a document published on Saturday, a day after the country logged its highest rate of positive Covid-19 tests. …

AstraZeneca’s experimental COVID-19 antibody-drug cocktail succeeded in reducing severe disease or death in non-hospitalised patients in a late-stage study. The pharma company announced the results on Monday, marking a boost in its…

AstraZeneca and the Royal Academy of Engineering yesterday (6 Oct) announced a partnership to help drive the development of health tech solutions in Africa. READ ALSO: WHO urges global leaders to embrace health innovation,…

China has approved AstraZeneca’s drug Imfinzi to treat aggressive types of lung cancer in adults, to boost its efforts to tackle the disease. According to a British pharmaceutical company, the drug’s combination with chemotherapy is for…

Thailand's mass immunisation strategy against the COVID-19 is to combine a shot of Sinovac and a shot of AstraZeneca vaccine doses to boost protection. The health minister, Anutin Charnvirakul said on Monday, that the move aims to…

AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford began new trials to test a modified vaccine against the Beta variant, which first emerged in South Africa. Andrew Pollard, chief investigator and director of the Oxford Vaccine Group at the…

Countries should avoid giving the Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccine to people over 60, the head of the EU drug regulator's COVID-19 task force said, amid fears over rare blood clotting and as more vaccines become available. The European…

Britain is in talk with AstraZeneca to combat 'beta' COVID-19 variant for additional doses of vaccine that has been modified to better target the variant, first identified in South Africa, and it will fund trials of the shots. Britain’s…

Austria will phase out AstraZeneca vaccine from its COVID-19 immunisation programme as a result of delivery problems and wariness among the population following reports of the vaccine’s rare side effects. The health minister, Wolfgang…