Fri 19 March 2021: Germany’s president conferred Turkish scientists Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci with the country’s highest award on Friday for inventing the world’s first effective vaccine against COVID-19. Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented the Order of Merit to Sahin and Tureci at a ceremony held at the Bellevue Palace, which was also attended by Chancellor […]
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Fri 19 March 2021: Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, says South Africa is in talks to sign a ground-breaking vaccine production contract with ImmunityBio, a US-based firm owned by a South African-born billionaire. The Minister said this on the sidelines of Deputy President David Mabuza’s visit to the Biovac Institute in […]
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Fri 19 March 2021: Financial woes brought by last year’s coronavirus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class, undoing years of economic gains, a report showed on Thursday, while job losses pushed millions into poverty. The number of Indians in the middle class, or those earning between $10 and $20 […]
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Fri 19 March 2021: The novel coronavirus was likely circulating undetected for at most two months before the first human cases of COVID-19 were described in Wuhan, China in late-December 2019, according to a study. The research, published in the journal Science, used molecular dating tools and epidemiological simulations to date the emergence of the […]
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Fri 19 March 2021: The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is safe, Boris Johnson has said, adding he will be receiving it himself on Friday. The country is currently vaccinating those over 50, which includes 56-year-old Johnson, who has been waiting for his turn just like everyone else. “As it happens, I’m getting mine tomorrow. And the […]
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Thu 18 March 2021: South Africa has successfully inoculated more than 10% of its healthcare workers through the Sisonke Study, as more vaccine vials are expected to arrive this weekend. To support the country’s risk-based, three-phased National COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Strategy, Sisonke has enabled government to make the Johnson & Johnson shots immediately available to […]
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Wed 17 March 2021: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has announced the setting up vaccination certificates amid concerns over slow vaccine rollout and shortages. Dubbed “the Digital Green Certificate,” the proposal is set to facilitate the movement of people from one EU member state to another. The certificate will provide information on COVID-19 vaccination, recovery and test results. […]
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Wed 17 March 2021: The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has approved the Section 21 application for Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. “This approval is subject to conducting a post Section 21 authorisation efficacy and safety surveillance of Comirnaty vaccine in South Africa,” said SAHPRA on Tuesday. According to SAHPRA, the main purpose of Section […]
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Wed 17 March 2021: The coronavirus pandemic in the African region has shown a downwards trend over the past week, the World Health Organization Africa office said, but urged caution. The African region registered 44,702 new cases, a 13.3% decrease compared to the previous week, the regional office of the UN health body said in […]
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Tue 16 March 2021: Moderna has begin enrolling children under the age of 12 in a new scientific trials aimed at gauging the safety and effectiveness of its vaccine in the younger-age population, the company said on Tuesday. “The Company intends to enroll approximately 6,750 pediatric participants in the US and Canada ages 6 months […]
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