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UK launches trial giving volunteers alternating Pfizer/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses

MOSCOW, Feb 4 (Sputnik) The United Kingdom has launched recruitment for the world's first clinical trial that will see volunteers given alternating doses of COVID-19 vaccines produced by AstraZeneca/Oxford University and Pfizer/BioNTech, the Department of Health and Social Care said Thursday.
"Backed by £7 million [$9.5 million] of government funding, the study will be the first in the world to determine the effects of using different vaccines for the first and second dose – for example, using Oxford University/AstraZeneca’s vaccine for the first dose, followed by Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine for the second," the department said in a press release.
The study is being run by the National Immunisation Schedule Evaluation Consortium and will also assess the effects of giving participants a mixed-vaccine regimen at varying intervals.
"This is a hugely important clinical trial that will provide us with more vital evidence on the safety of these vaccines when used in different ways," Nadhim Zahawi, the UK's minister for COVID-19 vaccine deployment, said in the press release.
The government said that there were no current plans to alter the UK's national COVID-19 vaccination program, which sees individuals receive two shots of the same vaccine.
Russian vaccine manufacturers have also raised the possibility of conducting mixed-dose trials. Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, said in early January that plans were in place to conduct mixed Sputnik V-AstraZeneca dosing regimen trials.
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