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20<br />

<strong>FM</strong> COVID-19 UPDATES<br />

OXFORD<br />

VACCINE<br />

GRANTED EUA<br />

AMID FEARS<br />

OF RISING<br />

MUTANT<br />

STRAIN IN UK<br />

78<br />

DISEASES<br />

NCDs ARE<br />

LEADING CAUSES<br />

OF DEATH AND<br />

DISABILITY: WHO<br />

Heart disease is now<br />

killing more people<br />

than ever be<strong>for</strong>e<br />

Technically, it<br />

will take only 6<br />

weeks to prepare<br />

the vaccine <strong>for</strong> a<br />

new SARS-CoV-2<br />

strain like the one<br />

found in the UK.<br />

Ugur Sahin<br />

Co-Founder & CEO<br />

BioNTech<br />

32<br />

COVER STORY<br />

RAPID<br />

VACCINES<br />

Authorised <strong>for</strong> the first time,<br />

the highly efficient mRNA vaccines<br />

promise to alter the course of<br />

the COVID-19 pandemic

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