Coronavirus Notebook: UK Seven-Vaccine Booster Trial Begins, Australia Plans mRNA Production Capacity

The company manufacturing Russia's Sputnik V vaccine in Brazil has produced the first batch, but has withdrawn a request to run clinical trials there. France is preparing to immunize the over-18s, and Australia has begun evaluating Vir/GSK’s sotrovimab for use in COVID-19 patients.

The doctor is holding three vaccines. Vaccines in red and green colors.
A third vaccine could act as a booster dose • Source: Alamy

This week saw the official launch of the UK’s CovBoost study, which is intended to determine which vaccines will be the most effective as booster vaccinations in people who have already had two doses of a vaccine.

As well as studying combinations of seven different COVID-19 vaccines against a control group, the trial will examine whether a...

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