WHO lists Oxford vaccine for emergency use

Geneva, 16/2: The World Health Organization has listed AstraZeneca and Oxford university’s vaccine for emergency use.

A WHO statement said it had approved the vaccine as produced by AstraZeneca-SKBio (Republic of Korea) and the Serum Institute of India.

“We now have all the pieces in place for the rapid distribution of vaccines. But we still need to scale up production,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.