India’s information minister, Prakash Javadekar, announced on Saturday that the coronavirus vaccine, designed by the British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca in collaboration with the University of Oxford, had been approved by regulators a day earlier for emergency use. Formal approval by the Drugs Controller General of India is expected in the coming …
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The world health body announced the emergency approval on Thursday, as 2020 came to a close. Its Emergency Use Listing (EUL) will enable countries to expedite their own regulatory approval of the vaccine, and allow UNICEF and the Pan-American Health Organization to buy it for distribution, the WHO said. “This …
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“Algeria’s health minister has confirmed that a contract was signed… for the purchase of a vaccine against coronavirus with a Russian laboratory,” said Communications Minister Ammar Belhimer on Wednesday, according to local media. While Belhimer also suggested vaccine-related talks were ongoing with “other foreign parties,” he did not elaborate further. …
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The preliminary analysis on the Phase III trial has shown that the vaccine is safe to use and 79.34 percent effective against Covid-19, Chinese media reported, citing the developer’s subsidiary, the Beijing Institute of Biological Products. The two-injection course has seen participants develop a high level of antibodies against the …
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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) gave the go-ahead as part of a “rolling review,” a fast-track process for new drugs that can be used during a health crisis, the regulator said on Wednesday. “I’m really pleased to say that the UK is now one step closer to …
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“That was easy,” Harris said after getting the first dose of the vaccine. “I barely felt it.” Harris also said she “encourages” everyone to receive the vaccine. “Literally this is about saving lives. I trust the scientists, and it is the scientists who created and approved the vaccine.” Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, …
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Conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and delivered to the UK’s official SAGE [The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies] advisory group late last week, the research notes that with a new coronavirus strain found to be “56% more transmissible” than other known variants, the country …
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The storage mishap occurred at an Advocate Aurora Health clinic in Grafton, Wisconsin over the weekend, an Aurora spokesperson told a local NBC affiliate, who said the vials had to be discarded due to “human error.” “We learned that about 50 vials of Moderna vaccine were inadvertently removed from a …
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A group of care home employees in the northeastern town of Stralsund was accidentally dosed with five times the prescribed amount of Pfizer-BioNTech’s newly approved Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday – the first day Germany began vaccinating healthcare workers and nursing home residents against the virus. Eight employees received five times …
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Russia’s Foreign Ministry suggested that Sullivan receive Sputnik V after the US diplomat revealed that he had asked Santa for a coronavirus vaccine for Christmas. In a series of tweets, a spokeswoman for the US Embassy in Moscow explained that Sullivan was grateful for the offer but would have to take a …
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