AstraZeneca shares slid on Monday despite positive news from the drugmaker’s first human trials of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine.
In the early-stage trial of the vaccine, which is being developed in conjunction with Oxford University, healthy volunteers generated immune responses.
In early US trading, the company’s stock was down by about 2.7%.
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AstraZeneca shares fell on Monday even after the publication of positive results from a trial of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed in partnership with Oxford University.

The study, published in The Lancet on Monday, said healthy volunteers who received the experimental vaccine, called AZD1222, showed immune responses.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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