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Data from the rollout of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine shows one dose of the shot results in 80 per cent less risk of death from the disease, ...
AstraZeneca has delivered 50 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to European Union countries, according to EU supply data, a milestone the ...
EU says US stand on patent virus waiver is no 'magic bullet'
The intent to ramp up distribution of these vaccines to the rest of the world might not be met if manufacturers are not adequately supported. The ...
Poor reception to the news in Malaysia is because of the perceived double standards in enforcement, the haphazard implementation of the MCO and ...
European countries distanced themselves on Friday from a proposal backed by U.S. President Joe Biden to waive patent rights on coronavirus ...
The European Commission called on Friday on the United States and other major COVID-19 vaccine producers to export what they make as the European ...
Europe's medicines regulator said on Friday it was reviewing reports of a rare nerve-degenerating disorder in people who have received ...
Britain's panel of vaccine advisers on Friday said that people under 40 should be offered an alternative to AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot where ...
Australian Sunny Joura flew to India to see his dying father and has been stuck there for a year as his home country enforced one of the world's ...
Former Malaysian leader Najib Razak, who has been convicted over the mammoth 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, is in trouble with the ...
More mutations of the virus can be expected if large outbreaks continue and much depends on vaccination rates and whether more effective ...
Brazil recorded 73,380 additional confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, bringing the ...
The United States has administered 251,973,752 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 324,610,185 doses, ...
BRUSSELS :The European Union is willing to discuss a proposal to waive intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines, European Commission ...
Britain recorded a further 2,613 cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, and 13 deaths, official data showed on Thursday.
More than 2,700 reports of suspected adverse events, which comprise common reactions like rash, muscle aches and dizziness, were received.
Peru's president Francisco Sagasti announced on Wednesday a fresh deal with Pfizer/BioNTech to purchase an additional 12 million doses of its ...
Guatemala on Wednesday (May 5) took delivery of its first consignment of Russian Sputnik V vaccines, with 50,000 doses arriving despite Guatemalan ...
With COVID-19 vaccine demand declining in the United States, some Canadians facing third-wave lockdowns are flying south to get inoculated, ...
The United States has administered 249,566,820 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning and distributed 321,549,335 ...
Moderna Inc said on Wednesday early human trial data shows that a third dose of either its current COVID-19 shot or an experimental new vaccine ...
Germany's CureVac is on track to file for European approval of its COVID-19 vaccine as early as this month because high infection rates among ...
The COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinovac Biotech is efficacious in preventing COVID-19 in adults under 60, but some quality data on the ...
Pfizer on Tuesday (May 4) raised its forecast for 2021 COVID-19 vaccine sales by more than 70 per cent to US$26 billion and said demand from ...
Sicily will start offering COVID-19 vaccines to people over 50 to speed up its inoculation programme which is being hampered by a reluctant older ...
Rolling out of vaccines to developing countries, Beijing has framed itself as a solution to the pandemic rather than the origin of the ...
Denmark on Monday (May 3) became the first country to exclude Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 shots from its vaccination programme over a potential ...
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte received his first dose of Sinopharm's vaccine against COVID-19 on Monday to encourage reluctant Filipinos ...
Many people worried about COVID-19 symptoms have turned to buying antibiotics without seeking medical help, fuelling another global crisis, says ...
Moderate drinking is unlikely to impair the immune response to the COVID-19 vaccine, but heavy drinking might.
Britain's NHS (National Health Service) Test and Trace system is reducing the size of its contact tracing workforce after a decline in coronavirus ...
But in some ways there is less to Biden’s radicalism than meets the eye, says the Financial Times’ Edward Luce.
It provides critical back-end staff to other countries, particularly in finance and health. Coupled with its role in pharmaceutical supply, it is ...
Norway said on Friday it will extend the time between first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccines to 12 from six weeks for most adults under the ...
Spain will extend the gap between the first and second doses of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine by between four and six weeks, El Mundo ...
The World Health Organization expects to release its assessments for emergency use listing of the two main Chinese vaccines for COVID-19 as well ...
LONDON :A single dose of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine may not generate a sufficient immune response to protect against dominant new variants, ...
Brazil's death toll in the coronavirus pandemic surpassed 400,000 Thursday, as the country struggled to secure enough vaccines and the Senate ...
Free beer, pot and doughnuts. Savings bonds. A chance to win an all-terrain vehicle. Places around the US are offering incentives to try to ...
Chile, a global leader in vaccination, is considering issuing a "green card" to those inoculated against the coronavirus in an effort to encourage ...
Brazil's health regulator said Thursday its decision to reject the Russian-made Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine was based on the developer's own ...
The United States has administered 237,360,493 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Thursday morning and distributed 305,478,495 doses, ...
Pakistan has purchased 13 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from three Chinese companies, its health minister told Reuters on Thursday.
Denmark's top health official said on Thursday (Apr 29) "the only ethical, correct decision" for some countries facing COVID-19 crises is to ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo has begun re-deploying hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 vaccines to other African nations which it says it won't ...
Moderna Inc said on Thursday it is boosting manufacturing capacity for its COVID-19 vaccine and expects to make up to 3 billion doses in 2022, ...
More than 50 million people have been infected in Europe by the coronavirus since it emerged in China in December 2019, according to an AFP tally ...
Tainted batches of Russia's Sputnik V Covid vaccine sent to Brazil carried a live version of a common cold-causing virus, the South American ...
With more than 300,000 new cases a day and the death toll evidently much higher than reported, India is no one’s idea of a global leader, says ...
From the on-off Singapore-Hong Kong travel bubble to the simultaneous tightening and loosening of rules depending on travel history, this ...
Argentina's government said on Wednesday (Apr 28) that it had met with representatives of drugmaker AstraZeneca to ask about "difficulties" in the ...
Indians struggled to register online for a mass vaccination drive set to begin at the weekend as the country's toll from the coronavirus shot past ...
Britain will buy 60 million more doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, health minister Matt Hancock said, in a deal that more than doubles ...
The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating, which is why equitable access to vaccines and effective preventive measures are crucial to helping turn the ...
A new mass fundraising campaign aims to inspire 50 million people around the world to make small donations to Covax, the international effort to ...
Doses of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine sent to Slovakia in March will have to be kept in storage for at least another month, after Moscow ...
AstraZeneca PLC's COVID-19 vaccine is safe and Canadians should have confidence in it, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, reacting ...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not seen a link between heart inflammation and COVID-19 vaccines, CDC director Rochelle ...
The European Commission has launched legal proceedings against Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca for not respecting its contract for the supply ...
India expects to secure the biggest chunk of the 60 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses that the United States will share globally, two ...
Some Russians who have taken COVID-19 antibody tests and found their antibodies have fallen are having third and fourth shots of the Sputnik V ...
Narendra Modi is not the first world leader to suffer the consequences for acting too slowly – or declaring victory too early, says The Financial ...
Brazil's health regulator on Monday denied a request from several states to import Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, saying it did not have ...
Egypt's drug authority said on Monday it had granted approval to China's Sinovac coronavirus vaccine for emergency use.
The United States will release up to 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, a senior official said on Monday (Apr 26), following ...
Israel's Health Ministry said on Sunday it is examining a small number of cases of heart inflammation in people who had received Pfizer's COVID-19 ...
The United States will immediately send raw materials for COVID-19 vaccines, medical equipment and protective gear to help India respond to a ...
Britain reported 1,712 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday (Apr 25), government data showed, meaning there were 17,063 new cases between Apr 19 and ...
World number one Novak Djokovic said Friday he hoped it would not become compulsory for players to be vaccinated against coronavirus and insisted ...
French health authorities reported that 5,962 people were in intensive care units with COVID-19 on Friday, 19 fewer than a day earlier, but the ...
One of the Oxford scientists who co-developed AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine defended its safety on Friday and said he was not worried that some ...
Germany wants to buy up to a total 30 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in June, July and August as long as the European drugs ...
European regulators said the benefits of using Johnson & Johnson's and AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccines outweigh risks, even as they added warning ...
Britain is launching a search for antivirals to treat COVID-19 with the aim of having at least two effective at-home treatments by the end of the ...
Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday (Apr 20) it will resume rolling out its COVID-19 vaccine in Europe after the region's medical regulator said the ...
Sinovac Biotech has supplied 260 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine globally, with over 60per cent supplied to countries outside China, the ...
Russia's Sputnik V anti-COVID shot is unlikely to play a part in France's efforts to accelerate its vaccination rollout because it does not yet ...
More government hospital beds will be freed for COVID-19 patients, India's health ministry said on Sunday (Apr 18), as the vast nation grappled ...
British health officials are investigating a COVID-19 variant originating in India but as yet they do not have enough evidence to classify it is ...
A modified version of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine tailored to combat a coronavirus variant first documented in South Africa could be ready by ...
South Korea's Huons Global Co Ltd said on Friday it will lead a consortium to produce 100 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine per ...
Britain's health ministry said on Thursday there were no plans to halt rapid coronavirus testing, after the Guardian newspaper reported the ...
With travel closed and many social activities curtailed, our lifestyles have become much more sedentary. This means we sit a lot more and this is ...
The Brazilian government's "failed response" to the pandemic led to thousands of otherwise avoidable deaths and created a humanitarian catastrophe ...
Venezuela has received a batch of 50,000 doses of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Health Minister Carlos Alvarado said on Thursday, as ...
Denmark's government has not yet decided what to do with its leftover AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines after authorities halted use of the shot over ...
Norway will take more time to assess whether to resume the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 or stop it altogether, health minister ...
German biotech firm CureVac said it had seen the number of requests for its experimental COVID-19 vaccine increase over the past few days, ...
The pace of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine production is unlikely to speed up markedly in the next few months, though the US drugmaker expects output ...
