VACCINE
Pakistan has not placed any orders for Covid-19 vaccine, says country's health official
In a telephonic interaction with The News International, Dr Faisal Khan, the Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health said: "Although,...
President-elect Joe Biden uses the Defense Production Act for vaccines
President-elect Joe Biden will use the Defense Production Act to expand the production of the and vaccination supplies as part of a wide-ra...
Current vaccine rollout in US 'a dismal failure': Joe Biden
President-elect Joe Biden called the current rollout of the coronavirus vaccine "a dismal failure" as he highlighted his $1.9 trillion plan...
EU seeks more Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, eyes deals with Valneva, Novavax
The bloc, with a population of nearly 450 million, has already booked a total of almost 2.3 billion doses from six vaccine makers. Most vac...
How the wealthy are maneuvering to get the vaccine first
In December, Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened sanctions of up to $1 million (and the revocation of the right to practice) against doctors, nurs...
China to provide COVID-19 vaccines free of charge: Government official
China in late December approved its first vaccine for general public use. Three vaccines had already been given to limited groups at high r...
Pfizer study says vaccine protects against variant
New research suggests the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech can still work against a mutated coronavirus. Two easier-to-spread n...
Denmark developing digital COVID-19 "vaccine passport"
"It is expected that there may be requirements from other countries to present vaccine documentation upon entry. A Danish vaccine passport ...
WHO Europe urges safe flexibility on timing of COVID-19 vaccine doses
The WHO's Hans Kluge's comments come as some countries including Britain are seeking to counter low vaccine supplies by extending the gap b...
Covid-19: USFDA warns against tweaking vaccine dosage
Suggestions to tweak dosage strategy to overcome a supply crunch are not rooted in solid evidence and hence such a move could put public he...
Speedy distribution of COVID-19 vaccine a major challenge for global govts: WHO experts
The scientists said it is equally important to ensure sustained surveillance, tracing, test and treat. "It is the only global initiative th...
Israel's health ministry authorizes use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine
Moderna has received authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine in the United States and Canada and additional authorizations are currently und...
Bangladesh on track to receive Covid vaccines from India
The PM has said that India will make vaccines for all humanity and that is a commitment at the highest level, highly placed sources told ET...
Beijing vaccinates thousands in Covid-19 jab drive
More than 73,000 people in the Chinese capital have received the first dose of the vaccine over the last couple of days, state media report...
Anthony Fauci calls COVID-19 vaccine rollout in US as 'disappointing'
"We would have liked to have seen it run smoothly and have 20 million doses into people today by the end of 2020, which was the projection,...
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China grants conditional approval to its homegrown COVID-19 vaccine
The approval comes a day after Sinopharm said its vaccine showed 79.34 per cent efficacy and a 99.52 per cent antibody-positive conversion ...
California nurse tests positive over a week after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine - ABC
Matthew W., a nurse at two different local hospitals, said in a Facebook post on December 18 that he had received the Pfizer vaccine, telli...
Unicef launches Covid-19 vaccine market dashboard
The dashboard provides a regularly updated overview of the global research and development pipeline, the projected production capacity, pub...
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