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Study finds some antibody therapies are not effective against new COVID-19 variants europeanpharmaceuticalreview
January 29, 2021
In vitro neutralisation assays show REGEN-COV and AZD7442 are effective against the new SARS-CoV-2 variants, while other antibody therapies, including Eli Lilly’s bamlanivimab, were not.
UK will offer its genomic expertise worldwide to identify new COVID-19 variants pharmatimes
January 29, 2021
The UK will offer its genomic expertise to the international community with the aim of aiding the identification of new variants of COVID-19, the government has announced.
Moderna believes its vaccine will protect against new COVID-19 variants expresspharma
January 26, 2021
The company said it found no reduction in the antibody response against the variant found in Britain.
ARUP Sequencing Specimens Able to Detect the UK Variant of COVID-19 americanpharmaceuticalreview
January 20, 2021
ARUP Laboratories announced it is sequencing variants of SARS-CoV-2 in specimens positive for COVID-19 to enable detection of the more contagious "United Kingdom (UK) variant" of the virus.
South African variant of SARS-CoV-2 should be more focus from governments: GobalData expresspharma
January 20, 2021
The South African variant shows more spike protein mutations than the UK variant, which might allow the virus to escape the immune protection provided by vaccination or prior infection.
Japan Health Ministry finds new coronavirus variant expresspharma
January 12, 2021
The variant was identified in airport tests on a man in his 40s, a woman in her 30s and two teens, the ministry said.
Vaccines in pipeline will work against the new COVID-19 variants: Dr K Raghavan expresspharma
December 30, 2020
Committee of experts to soon give report on the process of identifying and prioritising patients with co-morbidities, for the purpose of vaccination: Dr VK Paul.
Moderna expects its COVID-19 vaccine to protect against UK coronavirus variant expresspharma
December 25, 2020
Moderna said it expects that the immunity induced by its COVID-19 vaccine would be protective against the coronavirus variants reported in the UK.
New variant of coronavirus identified in the UK pharmatimes
December 16, 2020
Health officials say they have identified a new strain of coronavirus in the UK, as a soaring number of cases has pushed several areas in the South East into into Tier 3 lockdown.

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