Claim: The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine contains viruses from chimpanzees.
Fact-check: There are no human cells in the AstraZeneca vaccine, and it won't give you a chimpanzee virus - Full Fact
Verdict: the vaccine uses a modified virus which was originally created from a virus found in chimpanzees.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Daniella De Block Golding
Date published: 2021-02-25T00:00:00