AstraZeneca and Sinovac COVID-19 shots get emergency nod in Brazil

  • Brazil’s health regulator Anvisa has approved the COVID-19 vaccines developed by AstraZeneca (NASDAQ:AZN) and Sinovac Biotech (NASDAQ:SVA) for emergency use
  • The priority will be given to healthcare workers, and following Anvisa’s decision, the state of Sao Paolo kicked off its vaccination campaign by administering the Sinovac’s vaccine, CoronaVac, to a 54-year-old nurse
  • Just a day before this announcement, Anvisa had rejected an application for the use of Russian-made coronavirus vaccine, Sputnik V, saying it did not meet the minimum requirements to start the analysis
  • Brazil is awaiting the delivery of 2M doses of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, including a delayed shipment of its active ingredient for finishing in a plant in Rio de Janeiro
  • The country has 6M doses of CoronaVac ready for distribution in the next few days. Last week, the vaccine’s efficacy rate was subject to controversy in Brazil, when government officials said its efficacy was about 50%, far below the 78% rate announced earlier

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    The analysts expect for 2020 a net profit of 5.32 billion GBp. According to most of the analysts the company will have a profit per share for this book year of 405 GBp. So the price/earnings-ratio equals 19.07.

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    Astrazeneca 's market capitalization is based on the number of outstanding shares around 9784.08 billion GBp. The Astrazeneca stock was the past 12 months quite volatile. Since last January the stock is 1 percent higher. This year the stock price moved between 5871 and 10120 GBp.

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