The WHO statement from its top leadership in Europe on Thursday came after most countries reported increased coronavirus cases and deaths over the past seven days. Last week, Europe recorded 1.6 million new Covid-19 infections and close to 24,000 deaths. It is the world’s second-worst affected region with nearly 1 …
Read More »Despite roll-out, Russians ‘in no hurry’ to receive Covid-19 vaccines as suspicion is a ‘national characteristic,’ Kremlin claims
Speaking to Moscow-based newspaper Argumenty i Fakty, President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, admitted that distrust in domestically-produced vaccines is still hampering immunization efforts. “In terms of why people are in no hurry to get vaccinated, it seems to me that this is one of our national characteristics,” the …
Read More »Venezuelan President Maduro offers ‘oil for vaccines’ as country sees spike in Covid-19 cases
“Venezuela has the oil vessels and has the customers who will buy our oil,” Maduro said, as cited by the media. “We are ready and prepared for oil for vaccines, but we will not beg anyone.” He added that in addition to oil shipments, Caracas could pay for the vaccine provided …
Read More »Hillary Clinton urges Biden to give Covid-19 vaccines to poor nations, complains that Russia and China lead in ‘VACCINE DIPLOMACY’
“This is the kind of leadership that the United States has historically been known for, which frankly, we should be lifting up and doing more of,” Clinton said on Monday in an interview with Foreign Affairs magazine. “And what I’m intrigued by, and a little saddened by, is the way …
Read More »Making Covid-19 vaccines political was huge mistake on Europe’s part, Hungary’s FM tells RT after getting Sputnik V jab
Peter Szijjarto spoke to RT on Sunday, a couple of days after he received the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine. The minister said he has not experienced any side effects. I had not felt anything neither during vaccination nor after it. I received the first shot in the evening of Friday, …
Read More »Playing politics with vaccines, like the US pressuring Brazil not to use Sputnik V, made the world more unstable and cost lives
It was revealed in the annual report of the US Department of Health and Human Services that the US government worked towards convincing Brazil to reject Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine. The South American country has lost control over its Covid situation and been plunged into chaos, with more than 280,000 …
Read More »Countries aren’t being ‘guided by science’ over Covid vaccines – they’re playing politics with their citizens’ lives
We’ve seen a lot of lecterns during the pandemic, usually with politicians standing at them, telling us one thing or another about this lockdown or that spike. Alongside the politicians, often with their own lecterns, have been the scientists. Scientists don’t usually get this kind of prominence but they have …
Read More »Biden calls on local preachers & doctors to promote vaccines… dismissing Fauci’s appeal for Trump to help get skeptics on board
“The thing that has more impact than anything Trump would say to the MAGA folks is what the local doctor, what the local preacher, what the local people in the community say,” Biden said on Monday of the advice he’s getting from staffers. “So I urge all local docs and …
Read More »Vaccines DO help to stop coronavirus transmission, recent study suggests
A preprint study posted on Friday has found that family members of vaccinated British healthcare workers were around 30 percent less likely to catch Covid-19 than those of unvaccinated workers. Though a reduction of 30 percent may seem minor, the study pointed out that these family members were also at …
Read More »Half of French care home workers reluctant to take Covid-19 vaccines due to lack of ‘confidence’ in government – reports
France has one of the highest vaccine skepticism rates in the world, the country’s media reported earlier this month. Four in ten people there say they are unlikely to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus anytime soon. The sentiment seems to be even more widespread among the French medical caregivers …
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