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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: Vaccine hopes up, Zoom shares down and Biden calls Boris

14 November 2020

9:00 AM

14 November 2020

9:00 AM

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Pfizer and BioNTech announced a vaccine against Covid-19 of 90 per cent efficacy from two injections three weeks apart. It was not known if it prevented transmission of the virus. The vaccine has to be stored at an ultra-low temperature of minus 80˚C. In July, the British government had bought 40 million doses, enough for a third of the population, with ten million available by the end of the year (along with access to five other vaccine candidates, totalling 340 million doses in all).

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