Approval of AstraZeneca and Oxford vaccine promises relief to ailing UK

30 December 2020
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The COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN) and the University of Oxford has been given regulatory approval for emergency supply by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca, formerly AZD1222, are being released immediately so that vaccinations can begin early in the New Year.

The MHRA chief executive June Raine said that the approval followed a “robust and thorough assessment of all the available data”.

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