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Exscientia receives $1.5m Gates Foundation grant for AI-designed Covid-19 drugs pharmaceutical-technology
July 09, 2021
UK-based artificial intelligence (AI) drug discovery company Exscientia has received a $1.5m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gates Philanthropy Partners to accelerate the development of a new class of Covid-19 drugs.
Swiss Government Turns to Swissfillon for COVID-19 Test Kit Production contractpharma
July 09, 2021
Swissfillon AG has supplied 0.8 million aseptically filled transport media in syringes for the Swiss Army Pharmacy’s COVID-19 PCR test kit.
Batavia to Develop Clinical Process for RocketVax’s COVID-19 Vaccine contractpharma
July 09, 2021
After successful completion, Batavia will continue to scale-up and optimize the process for commercial scale.
Argentina announces COVID-19 vaccine supply deal with Moderna firstwordpharma
July 09, 2021
Argentina says it will sign a COVID-19 vaccine supply agreement with Moderna, as the country attempts to ramp up the inoculation of its population and avoid a possible third wave of coronavirus infections, reported the Financial Post.
Venezuela payment to COVAX received after funds blocked - Gavi firstwordpharma
July 09, 2021
A spokesperson for the Gavi vaccine alliance said on Thursday that Venezuela has paid its financial commitments to the COVAX vaccine-sharing facility and will be allocated COVID-19 vaccine doses upon availability, as reported by This is Money.
Two-dose COVID-19 vaccine response works against delta variant, researchers find firstwordpharma
July 09, 2021
New data out of France adds to evidence that widely used COVID-19 vaccines still offer strong protection against the Delta variant, which is spreading around the world and is now the most prevalent strain in the US, as reported by CBC News.
Zimbabwe gets 2 million Sinovac doses to boost COVID-19 vaccination firstwordpharma
July 09, 2021
Zimbabwe received 2 million COVID-19 vaccines from China’s Sinovac on Thursday, as reported in Sharenet.
Pfizer plans to seek FDA nod for COVID-19 booster next month as Delta spreads firstwordpharma
July 09, 2021
Pfizer's chief scientific officer Mikael Dolsten indicated Thursday that the company plans to seek an FDA emergency-use authorisation next month for a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine BNT162b2.
U.S. to send 500,000 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses to Uruguay firstwordpharma
July 09, 2021
The United States will send 500,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to Uruguay on Thursday, the White House said, as reported by the National Post.
COVID-19: Doctor's certificates for antigen self-tests now offered online worldwide by DrAnsay.com prnewswire
July 09, 2021
DrAnsay.com, the market leader for online doctor attests, now offers online test certificates for self-applied rapid antigen tests worldwide to avoid the effort, infection risk and cost of point-of-care testing.

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