AstraZeneca jabs tipped for nod
Vaccine would be for ’emergency use’
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine this week for emergency use.
Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, director-general of the Ministry of Public Health’s Disease Control Department (DCD), said on Monday the FDA was examining documents submitted to it to prove the efficacy and safety of “a Covid-19 vaccine”.
Dr Surachoke Tangwiwat, deputy secretary-general of the FDA, later confirmed it was the vaccine produced by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, a British-Swedish…