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Students in Boston’s public schools will shift to remote learning due to the rising Covid-19 infection rate in the city that was ravaged by the pandemic in the spring.
Brazilian health authority Anvisa said a volunteer in a clinical trial of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University died, stating it had received data from an investigation into the matter.
AstraZeneca could resume U.S. testing of the company’s Phase III Covid-19 vaccine soon after being paused for more than a month while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigates a serious illness that occurred in a patient who received the experimental treatment.
Purdue Pharma LP agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges over the handling of the company’s addictive prescription opioid OxyContin, in a deal with U.S. prosecutors that effectively sidestepped paying billions of dollars in penalties and stopped short of criminally charging its executives or wealthy Sackler family owners.
Eli Lilly hired an independent consultant to review a plant producing the company’s Covid-19 antibody drug after receiving a notice from the U.S. health regulator.
Interpublic Group named Philippe Krakowsky as IPG Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2021.
The European Commission signed a contract on behalf of EU states with U.S. drugmaker Johnson & Johnson for the supply of 400 million doses of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate.
Novartis is seeking to repurpose the company’s investigational oral spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) medicine branaplam to treat Huntington’s disease, as the Swiss drugmaker plans a clinical trial after winning U.S. orphan drug designation.
GlaxoSmithKline will move the company’s experimental vaccine against the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a cause of pneumonia in toddlers and the elderly, into the final stage of testing after experiencing encouraging mid-stage trial results.
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut urged their residents to not travel between the three states as the U.S. Northeast sees a rise in Covid-19 cases, while California said major theme parks including Disneyland would not be opening anytime soon.