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Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine to be sold to developing countries at cost price - The New York Beacon

The coronavirus vaccine produced by Oxford University and AstraZeneca will be available on a non-profit basis “in perpetuity” to low- and middle-income countries in the developing world. The details of arrangements to supply poorer countries came as AstraZeneca revealed the interim results of a phase 3 trial of the […]

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