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January 4, 2021

India Approves 2 Vaccines as U.K. Starts Administering Oxford-AstraZeneca Shot
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In international news, India has approved two vaccines against COVID-19:
the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine and Bharat Biotech's domestically
developed Covaxin. Indian health experts and politicians expressed alarm
that Covaxin was approved without any published data on its efficacy.
India aims to inoculate 300 million frontline workers, elderly and
vulnerable people, out of its 1.35 billion population, by August.

Britain became the first country today to start administering doses of
the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine.

In related news, the World Health Organization listed Pfizer-Bio NTech's
COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use Thursday, which should allow less
wealthy countries to expedite their own regulatory approval process for
the treatment.


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