Covid-19 roundup: Yet more dos­es of the As­traZeneca-Ox­ford vac­cine; A sec­ond ran­dom­ized hy­drox­y­chloro­quine study fails

An­oth­er gene ther­a­py com­pa­ny is of­fer­ing its fa­cil­i­ties to the Covid-19 fight.

Ox­ford Bio­med­ica, a 90s-era spin­out of Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, has signed a 5-year agree­ment to help man­u­fac­ture the Covid-19 vac­cine be­ing de­vel­oped by Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty’s Jen­ner In­sti­tute and As­traZeneca. The deal is with the Vac­cines Man­u­fac­tur­ing and In­no­va­tion Cen­tre, a gov­ern­ment-spon­sored non-prof­it set up 2 years ago to shore up the isle’s vac­cine man­u­fac­tur­ing ca­pac­i­ty.

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