US pharma firm Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine is 94.5% effective
17 November 2020 |
2:56 pm
Moderna said that Phase 3 stage analysis suggested its coronavirus vaccine could prevent COVID-19. The news comes a week after Pfizer and German drug-maker BioNTech announced a vaccine of their own.
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