{"id":29154,"date":"2020-12-30T13:20:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T09:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=29154"},"modified":"2020-12-30T13:20:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T09:20:41","slug":"uk-approves-astrazeneca-oxford-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/12\/30\/uk-approves-astrazeneca-oxford-covid-19-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"UK approves AstraZeneca\/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, as it battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt Hancock, UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care said that the vaccine will be made available to some of the poorest regions of the world at a low cost, helping protect countless people from this awful disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is a tribute to the incredible UK scientists at Oxford University and AstraZeneca whose breakthrough will help to save lives around the world. I want to thank every single person who has been part of this British success story. While it is a time to be hopeful, it is so vital everyone continues to play their part to drive down infections,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, as it battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus, Reuters reported. Matt Hancock, UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care said that the vaccine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29156,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29154\/revisions\/29156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}