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Novavax Covid vaccine effective in UK trial

Guardian, 29 Jan 2021
Another vaccine against Covid, trialled in the UK and bought by the government, has been shown to be nearly 90% effective and work against the UK and South African variants of the virus. Stanley Erck, CEO of Novavax, has said numbers show 'dramatic demonstrations' of ability of new vaccine to develop an immune response against different strains of Covid-19. The UK vaccines taskforce has bought 60m doses of the Novavax vaccine and it will be manufactured on Teesside in the UK

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