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Covid-19 vaccines are being pulled

Video. AstraZeneca asks for European approval of COVID jab to be pulled

Updated: 08/05/2024 - 18:42 GMT+2

AstraZeneca was one of the first pharma laboratories to launch a COVID vaccine on the market at the end of 2020, a year after the virus appeared.

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