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10.40pm GMT
AstraZeneca said on Saturday its vaccine developed with the University of Oxford appeared to offer only limited protection against mild disease caused by the South African Covid variant, based on early data from a trial, Reuters reports.
The study from South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand and Oxford University showed the vaccine had significantly reduced efficacy against the South African variant, according to a Financial Times report published earlier in the day.
10.26pm GMT
A major teaching hospital in England has been forced to suspend its vaccination clinics because it does not have enough eligible people to be vaccinated, reports the Observer’s James Tapper.
