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The British drug agency (

MHRA

) has given this Wednesday the green light to the vaccine against Covid-19 developed by the British group

AstraZeneca

with the

University of Oxford

, with which the British authorities hope to accelerate the vaccine campaign launched at the beginning of December.

"Today the government accepts the recommendation of the Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to authorize the use of the

Oxford University / AstraZeneca

Covid-19

vaccine

," announced a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, with so

the UK

is the first country to approve this less expensive and more easily distributed vaccine.

This green light "comes after rigorous clinical trials and extensive data analysis by MHRA experts, which concluded that the vaccine met their strict safety, quality and efficacy standards," added this spokesperson in a press release. .

Cheaper and easier to distribute

The UK has purchased 100 million doses of the vaccine, in contracts totaling more than 350 million doses by the end of 2021, sourced from seven manufacturers since the early stages of clinical trials.

It is the second vaccine approved by the MHRA, after the one from

Pfizer / BioNTech

, which has already received more than 600,000 people since December 8.

The AstraZeneca and Oxford vaccine is eagerly awaited for practical reasons.

It is much less expensive than the one already distributed and can be stored in conventional freezers without the need for storage at -70 degrees.

Data published in early December in the

Lancet

medical journal

indicated that the vaccine is 62% effective when two full doses of the vaccine are given, but 90% effective when half the first dose is given. followed by a full one in the second.

One of the countries most affected in

Europe

by the pandemic with more than 71,000 deaths, the United Kingdom is facing a rebound in contamination attributed to a variant of the virus that presents, according to a British study, a contagiousness between 50% and 74 % higher.

This phenomenon has led the authorities to reconfine a large part of the population: 40% of the inhabitants of England, mainland Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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