-- 2021-01-06 11:15:14
The World Bank is working closely with over 100 countries to pave the way for them to receive low-interest loans and funding to purchase and distribute Covid-19 vaccines, World Bank Group President Da...
-- 2021-01-06 10:42:28
The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday he was “very disappointed” that China has still not authorised the entry of a team of international experts to examine the origins...
Reuters 2021-01-05 16:59:33
Israel's health ministry has authorised a COVID-19 vaccine developed by US drugmaker Moderna Inc, the company and an Israeli official said, marking the vaccine's third regulatory authorisation and the...
Reuters 2021-01-05 15:54:07
Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: England back in lockdown England wakes up on Tuesday to a new national lockdown to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases that th...
-- 2021-01-05 13:06:54
Moderna Inc said on Monday it would produce at least 600 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine in 2021, up by 100 million doses from its previous forecast, as the United States continues to roll-out t...
-- 2021-01-04 19:52:27
Scientists are not fully confident that COVID-19 vaccines will work on a new variant of the coronavirus found in South Africa, ITV's political editor said on Monday, citing an unidentified scientific...
REUTERS 2021-01-04 16:01:32
As Indonesia prepares to begin mass inoculations against Covid-19, its plan to prioritise working age adults over the elderly, aiming to reach herd immunity fast and revive the economy, will be closel...
-- 2021-01-01 16:12:57
In an effort to speed up access to Covid-19 vaccination in the developing world, the UN health agency approved Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccines for emergency use. Regulatory experts convened by t...
Reuters 2020-12-31 16:03:42
Britain on Wednesday became the first country to approve AstraZeneca and Oxford University's home-grown UK COVID-19 vaccine, adding an easy-to-manage shot to the arsenal of a nation desperate...
Xinhua 2020-12-31 15:54:03
More than 10 million children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), northeast Nigeria, the Central Sahel, South Sudan and Yemen will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, the United Nations...
Al Jazeera 2020-12-26 15:47:06
Three new variants of COVID-19 have been detected in recent weeks, discoveries which have led to fresh fears across the world because some make the virus up to 70 per cent more transmissible. Viruses...
Reuters 2020-12-23 17:24:11
British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc told Reuters on Tuesday its COVID-19 vaccine should be effective against the new coronavirus variant, adding that studies were underway to fully probe the impact of t...
REUTERS 2020-12-23 16:33:13
As 2020 closes, regulatory approval of Covid-19 vaccines has raised hopes the world can defeat the pandemic next year. But production and delivery challenges suggest beating the disease will be a mara...
CNN 2020-12-22 19:00:26
Pfizer and Moderna are testing their coronavirus vaccines to see if they work against the new mutated version of the virus that's recently been found in the United Kingdom and other countries, accordi...
Reuters 2020-12-22 18:32:03
The World Health Organization (WHO) will convene a meeting of members to discuss strategies to counter a new, more infectious coronavirus strain that emerged in Britain, its European chief said on Tue...
-- 2020-12-22 16:18:14
AstraZeneca and Amgen said on Tuesday their experimental asthma drug tezepelumab failed to meet the main goal of reducing patients’ dependence on steroids, while keeping the respiratory conditio...
REUTERS 2020-12-22 12:13:51
A new variant of the coronavirus spreading rapidly in Britain carries mutations that could mean children are as susceptible to becoming infected with it as adults - unlike previous strains, scientists...
-- 2020-12-22 09:03:11
The World Health Organization cautioned against major alarm over a new, highly infectious variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in Britain, saying this was a normal part of a pandemic’s ev...
JAMES GALLAGHER, BBC 2020-12-21 20:54:59
The rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus in the United Kingdom has been blamed for the introduction of strict tier four mixing rules for millions of people, harsher restrictions on mixing at C...
-- 2020-12-18 20:01:55
The COVAX alliance, which aims to secure COVID-19 vaccines for the world’s most vulnerable people, said on Friday it had gained access to nearly 2 billion doses, roughly doubling its supply, wit...
Reuters 2020-12-18 18:22:55
All five babies born to women with COVID-19 infection during a study in Singapore have had antibodies against the virus, although the researchers said it is not yet clear what level of protection this...
Reuters 2020-12-18 15:27:30
A panel of outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday overwhelmingly endorsed emergency use of Moderna Inc's coronavirus vaccine, virtually assuring a second option for protec...
-- 2020-12-18 15:12:16
The European Union (EU) will start vaccination for coronavirus (Covid-19) after Christmas, the bloc's executive chief Ursula von der Leyen has announced. "It's Europe's moment. On 27, 28 and 29 Decem...
-- 2020-12-17 10:58:00
The global scheme to deliver coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccines to poorer countries faces a “very high” risk of failure, potentially leaving nations home to billions of people with no access...
-- 2020-12-16 21:57:12
The European Union could give final approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as early as Dec 23, a senior Commission official said on Wednesday, only two days after a possible green light fro...
-- 2020-12-16 16:23:20
Nearly one in four people may not get Covid-19 vaccines until at least 2022 because rich countries with less than 15 per cent of the global population have reserved 51 per cent of the doses of the mos...
-- 2020-12-15 18:26:46
With Americans, Britons and Canadians rolling up their sleeves to receive coronavirus vaccines, the route out of the pandemic now seems clear to many in the West, even if the rollout will take many mo...
FE Online Report 2020-12-14 17:22:16
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has handed over four new ambulances and a COVID-19 sample collection van to Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) to help...
-- 2020-12-12 12:14:54
Five key genes are linked with the most severe form of coronavirus (Covid-19), scientists said on Friday, in research that also pointed to several existing drugs that could be repurposed to treat peop...
Reuters 2020-12-11 21:51:07
Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline said clinical trials of their COVID-19 vaccine showed an insufficient immune response in older people, delaying its launch to late next year and marking a setback in the glo...
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