SINGAPORE: Global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has started withdrawing its Covid-19 vaccine, Vaxzevria, worldwide.
AstraZeneca is no longer manufacturing and supplying Vaxzevria, and in 2023, it began to move toward developing drugs to target obesity and vaccines for the respiratory syncytial virus. Vaxzevria was widely released worldwide in 2021 for individuals aged 18 and up as a series of two injections to the upper arm three months apart. Later, some countries used it as a booster jab as well.
The Guardian quotes Prof Catherine Bennett, the chair of epidemiology at Deakin University in Australia, as saying that the AstraZeneca vaccine had been instrumental in the first line of defence during the pandemic.India to vaccinate elderly population from March 1. Which other countries have vaccinated senior citizens
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