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DIRECT. Covid-19: Sanofi and GSK's vaccine will not be ready until the end of 2021

2020-12-11T22:33:35.303Z


In France, confinement will end on December 15 but cultural venues will ultimately have to remain closed and a curfew will come into effect.


The main thing to remember:

  • The world of culture looks grim after the announcement by Jean Castex that cinemas and theaters will ultimately remain closed until at least January 7.

    In addition, the curfew will be in effect on December 31.

  • Public Health France reports a "worrying development of the epidemic due to a very small decrease in the circulation of the virus" and a "high risk of seeing the circulation of the virus increase again in the coming weeks" .

  • In the United States, the toll is again very heavy with 2,900 deaths recorded in 24 hours.

»Live information:

7:10.

The Sanofi and GSK vaccine ... not before the end of 2021

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The two French and British laboratories announce that their vaccine against Covid-19 will probably not be ready until the end of 2021, after less good than expected results from the first clinical trials.

The conduct of the program "is being delayed in order to improve the immune response in the elderly," the groups said in a statement.

They now expect a vaccine to be made available in the fourth quarter of next year, when they initially hoped to submit an application for approval in the first half of 2021 and deliver a billion doses that same year.

6:55 am.

In Australia, an anti-Covid vaccine stopped following a false HIV test

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Development of the product was dropped on Friday after clinical trials produced a false positive HIV result among test participants, the government in Sydney said.

6:40 am.

New very heavy toll in the United States.

The country, facing an outbreak of the epidemic for several weeks, deplored Thursday 2,900 deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours, according to figures from Johns-Hopkins University.

At the same time, more than 210,000 cases have been recorded.

In addition, the past week was the one with the highest death toll since the start of the pandemic, said the Covid Tracking Project.

Our weekly update is published.

The US saw record cases and hospitalizations.

Deaths also broke the weekly record and surged 44% from the previous week.

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- The COVID Tracking Project (@ COVID19Tracking) December 10, 2020

6:35 am.

Green light soon expected for the Pfizer vaccine in the United States.

The U.S. Medicines Agency (FDA) Vaccine Advisory Committee recommends that the agency authorize Pfizer / BioNTech's vaccine against Covid-19 in the United States.

This opinion is non-binding, and the green light for marketing has not yet been given.

The FDA will decide in the next few days but the outcome is no longer in doubt and the vaccine should begin to be administered in the United States at the beginning of next week in hospitals and nursing homes, the US minister of health said on Wednesday. Health.

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