AstraZeneca COVID drug Evusheld approved in Israel for people with weakened immune systems
The drug has been shown to reduce severe morbidity and mortality from Covid by 83 percent, it added.;
Jerusalem: The Israeli Ministry of Health has approved the administration of AstraZeneca's Evusheld Covid-19 drug to people with weakened immune systems.
The antibody drug, which includes two injections of two types of long-acting antibodies given at the same time, is only authorised for those who are not currently infected or have not recently been exposed to an individual infected with the virus, Xinhua news agency reported.
The antibodies bind to the spike protein of the virus and neutralise the entry of the virus into the human cells, thus reducing the risk of developing a symptomatic disease, the ministry noted on Tuesday.
Evusheld, formerly known as AZD7442, is a combination of two LAABs - tixagevimab (AZD8895) and cilgavimab (AZD1061) - derived from B-cells donated by convalescent patients after SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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