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Australien trappar upp sin vaccinering efter leverans

På söndagen fick Australien 300 000 doser av Astra Zenecas vaccin mot coronaviruset – en fördubbling av antalet doser som tidigare skickats till landet, rapporterar Reuters.

Landet påbörjade sin massvaccinering i måndags och kan nu påskynda arbetet.

Premiärministern Scott Morrison säger att Australien nu kan öka vaccinutrullningen och vaccinera bland annat ”de mest utsatta” och sjukvårdspersonal.

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Astra Zeneca
Wikipedia (en)
AstraZeneca plc () is a British–Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company with its headquarters in Cambridge, England. AstraZeneca has a portfolio of products for major diseases including oncology, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation areas. The company was founded in 1999 through the merger of the Swedish Astra AB and the British Zeneca Group (itself formed by the demerger of the pharmaceutical operations of Imperial Chemical Industries in 1993). Since the merger it has been among the world's largest pharmaceutical companies and has made numerous corporate acquisitions, including Cambridge Antibody Technology (in 2006), MedImmune (in 2007), Spirogen (in 2013) and Definiens (by MedImmune in 2014). It has its research and development concentrated in three strategic centres: Cambridge, England; Gothenburg, Sweden and Gaithersburg in Maryland, U.S.AstraZeneca has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It has secondary listings on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm, Nasdaq New York, the Bombay Stock Exchange and on the National Stock Exchange of India.
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