 | | | | Investment firm All Blue Capital has approached Zymeworks Inc , a developer of antibody therapies for cancer, with a $773 million acquisition offer. | | | | | | Moderna sought emergency use authorization from the FDA on Thursday. | | | | | | The outbreak in Shanghai, which began in March, has been China's worst since the early months of the pandemic in 2020. | | | | | | Africa's first COVID-19 vaccination plant, touted last year as a trailblazer for an under-vaccinated continent frustrated by sluggish Western handouts, risks shutting down after receiving not a single order, a company executive said on Saturday. | | | | | | They are far less able to thrive in the blood of people vaccinated against COVID-19, South African scientists found. | | | | | | China's financial hub of Shanghai has reined in COVID transmission risks at the community level, excluding cases in quarantine centres, with six of its 16 districts attaining zero-COVID status, an official said on Sunday. | | | | | | China's eastern commercial hub of Shanghai reported 38 new COVID-19 related deaths on April 30, down from 47 a day earlier, the local health authority said on Sunday. | | | | | | China's Suzhou Abogen Biosciences Co said its COVID-19 vaccine candidate using the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology and targeting the Omicron variant has obtained clinical trial approval in the United Arab Emirates. | | | | | | China's Shanghai reported zero COVID-19 cases outside its quarantined areas for April 29, the first time since the recent outbreak in the eastern financial hub, according to local health authorities. | | | | | | Pfizer Inc's vaccines head Kathrin Jansen, who led the development of the U.S. drugmaker's COVID-19 shot, has decided to retire later this year. | | | | | |
