Covid-19 roundup: South Ko­re­an vac­cine to go up against As­traZeneca shot in small Phase III; CD­C's ACIP af­firms full ap­proval for Pfiz­er/BioN­Tech vac­cine

SK Bio­science, a South Ko­re­an com­pa­ny, and Glax­o­SmithK­line will test their Covid-19 vac­cine can­di­date against As­traZeneca’s shot in about 4,000 peo­ple, the com­pa­nies said Tues­day.

Shots from Pfiz­er/BioN­Tech, Mod­er­na and As­traZeneca are ap­proved in South Ko­rea, and the SK shot is the coun­try’s first do­mes­tic can­di­date, po­ten­tial­ly help­ing not on­ly South Ko­rea, but the rest of Asia’s re­liance on shots from the West.

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