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Taoiseach Micheál Martin receives his first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
2021-05-9

AstraZeneca announces that the efficacy rating of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate has been lowered to 76%, following new analyses of the trial run in the United States. Earlier in the week, the company had been criticized for advertising its vaccine with a 79% efficacy rating using what critics claimed was outdated data.
2021-03-25

Kazakhstan suspends talks with AstraZeneca for purchasing its vaccine amidst fears of blood clots in many countries.
2021-03-17

Argentina approves a vaccine made by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca for use in the country, becoming the second country after the UK to approve this vaccine.
2020-12-30

Malaysia signs a deal to receive 6.4 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
2020-12-22

The Indian government announces that the country will speed up their reviews of vaccines developed by Pfizer and AstraZeneca.
2020-12-7

The Philippines signs its first supply deal for a COVID-19 vaccine with AstraZeneca to obtain 2.6 million doses of vaccines for more than one million people, covering a percent of its population.
2020-11-27

AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot says that the vaccine results could be ready by the end of the year if trials resume. Clinical trials were temporarily suspended after a participant in the trials began to develop symptoms associated with transverse myelitis.
2020-09-10

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces a deal with CSL Limited to secure access to the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and receive the first batches of the potential vaccine in January.
2020-09-7