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AstraZeneca’s Shares Drop 1.5% After Death of COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Volunteer

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Shares of AstraZeneca, a UK-Swedish pharmaceutical company, fell by 1.5 percent on the London Stock Exchange on Thursday, after a previous day…
At 07:24 GMT Thursday, AstraZeneca’s shares dipped 1.5 percent to 78.01 pounds. On Wednesday, its stocks shed 1.8 percent. The National Health Surveillance Agency of Brazil (Anvisa) reported on Wednesday the death of a Brazilian volunteer who participated in the trials of COVID-19 vaccine, which was developed by the University of Oxford and the AstraZeneca laboratory, saying that the cause of death was not disclosed for reasons of ethics and confidentiality.

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