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\n \n\n \n18 February 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) Trial, the world\u2019s largest clinical trial for COVID-19 treatments, has now expanded internationally with Indonesia and Nepal among the first countries to join. The first patients have been recruited to RECOVERY International.
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\n \n\n \n15 February 2021
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine has today been granted Emergency Use Listing (EUL) by the World Health Organization (WHO) for active immunisation to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 18 years of age and older, including those over 65.
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\n \n\n \n12 February 2021
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford, together with three partner sites in London, Southampton and Bristol, is to launch the first study to assess the safety and immune responses in children and young adults of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 coronavirus vaccine.
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\n \n\n \n10 February 2021
\n \n \n \nA clinical trial has commenced this week to test whether a drug called Almitrine can help people who are seriously ill with COVID-19 to recover from the disease.
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\n \n\n \n8 February 2021
\n \n \n \nIn an analysis, submitted as a pre-print prior to peer-review publication, a two-dose regimen of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine provides minimal protection against mild-moderate COVID-19 infection from the B.1.351 coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa.
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\n \n\n \n5 February 2021
\n \n \n \nA preprint of ongoing work to assess effectiveness of Oxford\u2019s ChAdOx1 coronavirus vaccine shows that the existing vaccine has similar efficacy against the B.1.1.7 \u2018Kent\u2019 coronavirus strain currently circulating in the UK to previously circulating variants.
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\n \n\n \n4 February 2021
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford is to lead the first trial to explore alternating different COVID-19 vaccines, to explore the potential for flexibility in delivery and look for clues as to how to increase the breadth of protection against new virus strains.
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\n \n\n \n2 February 2021
\n \n \n \nResearchers at the University of Oxford have today published in Preprints with The Lancet an analysis of further data from the ongoing trials of the vaccine. In this, they reveal that the vaccine efficacy is higher at longer prime-boost intervals, and that a single dose of the vaccine is 76% effective from 22- to up to 90-days post vaccination.
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\n \n\n \n18 January 2021
\n \n \n \nThe RECOVERY trial was established as a randomised clinical trial to test a range of potential treatments for COVID-19.
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\n \n\n \n30 December 2020
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford welcomes the news that the UK Government has today accepted the recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to authorise the emergency use of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 coronavirus vaccine in the UK.
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\n \n\n \n17 December 2020
\n \n \n \nToday, researchers from the University of Oxford have published further data from the Phase I/II clinical trials of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 coronavirus vaccine, evidencing the decision to move to a two-dose regimen in ongoing phase III trials, and how ChAdOx1 nCov-19 induces broad antibody and T cell functions.
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\n \n\n \n8 December 2020
\n \n \n \nToday University of Oxford and AstraZeneca researchers present a pooled analysis of Phase 3 trials of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 across two different dose regimens, resulting in an average efficacy of 70.4%.
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\n \n\n \n19 November 2020
\n \n \n \nThe ChAdOx1 nCov-2019 coronavirus vaccine, developed by teams at the University of Oxford, has been shown to trigger a robust immune response in healthy adults aged 56-69 and those over 70 years of age.
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\n \n\n \n16 November 2020
\n \n \n \nA trial of a new inhaled antiviral drug for COVID-19 has shown positive results and the drug is now moving into a larger international phase 3 trial of hospitalised patients.
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\n \n\n \n2 November 2020
\n \n \n \nKenya has joined the global efforts in search of an effective vaccine for COVID-19 with the start of a trial evaluating the ChAdOx1 nCoV-2019 Oxford coronavirus vaccine.
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\n \n\n \n23 October 2020
\n \n \n \nThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has today authorised a restart of clinical trials of the ChAdOx1 nCov-2019 Oxford coronavirus vaccine in the USA following the trials restarting in the UK, Brazil, South Africa and Japan.
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\n \n\n \n22 October 2020
\n \n \n \nA team at Bristol University has used recently developed techniques to validate that the vaccine accurately follows the genetic instructions programmed into it by the Oxford team.
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\n \n\n \n21 October 2020
\n \n \n \nEurope\u2019s BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha is supporting their community during the coronavirus pandemic by spreading awareness of the PRINCIPLE trial of Covid-19 treatments.
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\n \n\n \n30 September 2020
\n \n \n \nResearchers at the University of Oxford are starting a new study to explore the effectiveness of the anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) drug adalimumab as a treatment for patients with COVID-19 in the community, especially care homes.
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\n \n\n \n23 September 2020
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