AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid vaccine is equally effective against the new strain of the virus that emerged in the U.K., according to a study by its co-developer, the University of Oxford. Britain has entered into a collaboration accord with CureVac NV, under which the company will deliver an initial supply of 50 million doses of vaccines against Covid-19 variants.
The U.S. Senate voted 51-50, after Vice President Kamala Harris broke her first tie, to adopt a budget blueprint for President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion virus relief package. His insistence on another outsize relief package was bolstered on Friday with a surprisingly weak January employment report.
Russian vaccine developers are in discussions with China’s CanSino Biologics Inc. to test a combination of their shots aimed at better results. Hungary, the first European Union country to approve Russian and Chinese coronavirus vaccines, could gradually start returning to normality this spring by inoculating the most exposed people by March 15, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Friday.