Canada on Thursday licensed British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc's AZN.L antibody-based remedy for stopping COVID-19 infections, giving itself one other weapon towards the illness as circumstances rise within the nation.
Well being Canada has cleared the drug - Evusheld - to be used in people aged 12 years and older who're immune compromised and unlikely to mount an enough immune response to COVID-19 vaccination or for whom COVID-19 vaccination is just not advisable.
Whereas vaccines depend on an intact immune system to develop focused antibodies and infection-fighting cells, Evusheld incorporates lab-made antibodies designed to linger within the physique for months to comprise the virus in case of an an infection.
The remedy has already been licensed in the USA and its use has additionally been advisable by the European Medicines Company.
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