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...Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has an efficacy rate of 97.6 per cent, its developers said, based on data from almost 4m people....
...The EU drug regulator will launch an investigation next week into whether clinical trials of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine contravened ethical and scientific standards....
...Vladimir Putin said he would be vaccinated with the Sputnik V jab on Tuesday....
...Slovakia’s prime minister said he was ready to stand down to defuse a crisis over his decision to purchase Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, which has not been approved by Europe’s regulator....
...Russia is seeking to manufacture its Sputnik V vaccine in Italy to meet a surge in overseas contracts....
...The developers of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine have demanded an apology from Europe’s drug regulator for comments made by the head of the agency likening having the jab to “Russian roulette”....
...Almost two-thirds of Russians are unwilling to receive the Sputnik V vaccine and about the same number believe Covid-19 was created as a biological weapon, a pollster said on Monday....
...The African Union will pay three times more for Russia’s Sputnik V jab than it is paying for the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Novavax vaccines, undermining Moscow’s claim that it is supplying poor countries with...
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
...Tehran is struggling to convince Iranians to take Russia’s Sputnik V jab. The west should heed Moscow and Beijing’s use of vaccines to court poorer nations, writes Anne-Sylvaine Chassany....
...Russia’s Sputnik V jab has shown 91.6 per cent efficacy against symptomatic Covid-19 in clinical trials, a Lancet peer review confirmed....
...Hungary is the only EU member to have approved both the Chinese-made Sinopharm and Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines....
...India, which passed 5m cases, will buy 100m doses of Russia’s Sputnik-V vaccine candidate. Eli Lilly’s antibody treatment reduced hospitalisations....
...(FT) Recovery, brought to you by the letter V, or maybe W Mapping economic output to familiar shapes makes a good deal of sense....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...(FT) The risk of a US double-dip depression With the US economy in effect already in depression, the temptation to go for a V-shaped recovery before the November election looks too great for Donald Trump...
...(FT) Economists are still too upbeat Economists initially, and over-optimistically, embraced a relatively quick V-shaped recovery....
...(FT) EU v Silicon Valley New data-sharing principles laid out by the EU this week seek to crack open the data silos that have helped to reinforce the power of the dominant tech companies....
...What else we’re reading The People v Harvey Weinstein Only hours after Hollywood partied into the night, Harvey Weinstein hobbled up the steps to a New York City criminal court....
...If you missed it, this long read by our media correspondent Anna Nicolaou charts the drama of The People v Harvey Weinstein trial....
...(FT) Coaching v commanding Andrew Hill recounts how industrial group Linde won over sceptical staff in 2017 with a safety drive based on “active listening”....
...(FT) Walmart v Amazon Few retailers are coping better with the relentless rise of Amazon than the country’s largest retailer Walmart....
...“Still, many of these initiatives were designed for a V-shaped recovery....
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