Britain becomes the first country to approve AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine

AstraZeneca plc (LON: AZN) said it received approval from the United Kingdom for its COVID-19 vaccine that it developed in collaboration with Oxford University on Wednesday. Britain is the 1st country to have approved the pharmaceutical giant’s COVID-19 vaccine for use as it struggles to combat the pandemic that has so far infected more than 2.3 million people countrywide and caused over 71 thousand deaths. A report last week said that India was likely to approve AstraZeneca’s vaccine for us in the coming days. AstraZeneca opened more than 1% up on Wednesday but lost the entire intraday gain in the