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A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccine clinic bus at the Grand Bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
February 22, 2022, 1:30 am
Iran spurns over 800,000 donated COVID shots because they are made in US
State media reports Tehran sent AstraZeneca doses back to Poland due to 2020 decree by supreme leader to not allow any American- or British-made vaccines into the country
By AP
A healthcare worker prepares a dose of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, during a mass vaccination in Nairobi, on December 16, 2021. (Simon MAINA / AFP)
December 23, 2021, 2:34 pm
AstraZeneca says its booster shot is effective against Omicron
A third shot of its vaccine ‘neutralized the Omicron variant’ to levels seen following the second dose, says the pharmaceutical giant in new research
By Roland JACKSON
In this March 15, 2021 file photo boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative arrive at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
December 16, 2021, 3:29 am
Israel to give 1 million coronavirus vaccines to African countries
Government will reportedly have say over which countries get unwanted AstraZeneca shots through COVAX program as it seeks to bolster diplomatic ties in Africa
By AP and ToI Staff
Empty vials of the AstraZeneca vaccine are seen on the counter at a walk-in COVID-19 vaccination center at a pharmacy in the suburb of Cabramatta in Sydney on August 17, 2021. (Saeed KHAN / AFP)
October 18, 2021, 1:13 pm
Israel to offer AstraZeneca vaccines starting Thursday
Doses will be available to those 18 and over who are unable to get mRNA-based vaccines like the ones made by Pfizer and Moderna
By ToI Staff
A medic holds up a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination centre at the Atid al-Najah High School for the Sciences at the city of Taibeh in northern Israel on August 19, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
August 19, 2021, 2:58 pm
Study finds Pfizer COVID-19 shots’ effectiveness drops faster than AstraZeneca’s
But Oxford University says research results suggest that after 4-5 months, the two vaccines would be similarly effective
By AFP
Illustrative: The Facebook app is shown on a smart phone in Surfside, Florida, April 23, 2021. (Wilfredo Lee/AP)
August 11, 2021, 7:52 am
Facebook bans Russia-based firm behind Pfizer, AstraZeneca smear campaign
Hundreds of accounts on platform and on Instagram traced back to Fazze, a marketing company working for an unknown client; one post claimed shots turn one into a chimpanzee
By David Klepper
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A Palestinian laborer who works in Israel receives his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a coronavirus vaccination center set up at the Gilboa checkpoint crossing between Israel and the West Bank city of Jenin, March 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
May 5, 2021, 9:36 am
Israel may toss millions of vaccines. Why won’t it give them to the PA instead?
With unwanted AstraZeneca doses on the way, and the majority of the Palestinians not vaccinated, there would seem to be a win-win solution. Except it’s not that simple
By Lazar Berman
Illustrative. Vials with COVID-19 Vaccine stickers attached and syringes with the logo of British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca on November 17, 2020. (JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP)
April 26, 2021, 5:58 pm
Frustrated by delays, EU launches legal action against vaccine-maker AstraZeneca
Slow pace of deliveries has angered European officials, who are holding the pharmaceutical company responsible for partly delaying their immunization rollout
By LORNE COOK
Indigenous nurse of the Misak ethnic group Anselmo Tunubala, 49, inoculates an elderly indigenous woman with a Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19 in the Guambia indigenous reservation, rural area of Silvia, department of Cauca, Colombia, on April 15, 2021 (Luis ROBAYO / AFP)
April 25, 2021, 5:03 am
One billion COVID-19 vaccine doses administered globally
But inoculation is still largely a privilege of high-income countries, which are home to 16% of world’s population but have given 47% of doses
By AFP
In this file photo taken on March 4, 2021, a pharmacist handles a Johnson & Johnson in Boston, Massachusetts (Joseph Prezioso / AFP)
April 24, 2021, 3:40 am
US to resume Johnson & Johnson vaccinations despite rare clot risk
Scientific advisers decide vaccine’s benefits outweigh risk after finding 15 cases of blood clots, 3 deaths out of nearly 8 million people given the shot
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and Mike Stobbe
Coronavirus czar Nachman Ash during a visit to the Jerusalem Municipality on November 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 21, 2021, 2:01 pm
Virus czar rejects Netanyahu’s prediction of another vaccine round in 6 months
Nachman Ash says that while it is expected Israelis will need further shots for protection against COVID, the timeframe is still unclear
By Stuart Winer
An AstraZeneca vaccination kit is placed on a table at a vaccination center in Bucharest, Romania, April 7, 2021.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
April 21, 2021, 10:07 am
Israel reportedly seeking to cancel deal for AstraZeneca vaccines
Ten million doses were ordered, but officials now wary amid blood clot fears; legal authorities looking at reselling units to other countries
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Vials of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine are seen in a cold room before being packaged for shipping, at a warehouse in the Paris suburbs, March 30, 2021. (Joel Saget/AFP)
April 15, 2021, 4:16 am
EU to get 50 million Pfizer doses early; Denmark stops using AstraZeneca shot
European Union to start receiving the vaccines by end of April, providing a boost to the bloc’s beleaguered immunization campaign
By Marc BURLEIGH and Camille BAS-WOHLERT
In this Thursday, April 8, 2021 file photo, the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine sits on a table at a pop up vaccinations site the Albanian Islamic Cultural Center, in the Staten Island borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
April 14, 2021, 2:29 am
What we know as clot fears hamper rollout of J&J, AstraZeneca vaccines
The two shots, based on same technology, suspected of causing very rare but serious blood clots in a handful of cases among millions vaccinated
By Paul RICARD
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