Sun 06 December 2020: After the United Kingdom became the first country to authorize the use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is set to receive the vaccine ”within weeks”. The monarch, 94, and her 99-year-old husband Prince Philip will get the vaccine dose early due to their age, but will not receive any preferential treatment. Instead, […]
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Sun 06 December 2020: Boston: Scientists have assessed the novel coronavirus infection in monkeys and found that the immune system’s T-Cells may contribute to protection against the virus if antibody responses are suboptimal, an advance which may aid in the development of vaccines and therapeutics for COVID-19. The study, published in the journal Nature, shed […]
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Sun 06 December 2020: Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country’s 1.4 billion people. Developers are speeding up final testing, the Chinese foreign minister said Thursday during a UN meeting, as Britain […]
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Sun 06 December 2020: Britain is preparing to become the first country to roll out the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine this week, initially making the shot available at hospitals before distributing stocks to doctors’ clinics, the government said on Sunday. The first doses are set to be administered on Tuesday, with the National Health Service (NHS) giving […]
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Sat 05 December 2020: Russia has started its COVID-19 vaccination programme, with the first jabs going to workers at high risk of becoming infected with coronavirus. President Vladimir Putin has ordered a nationwide voluntary vaccination programme to begin next week. He said Russia will have produced 2 million vaccine doses within the next few days. […]
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Sat 05 December 2020: The UN health chief has declared that positive results from coronavirus vaccine trials mean the world “can begin to dream about the end of the pandemic,” but he said rich and powerful nations must not trample the poor and marginalised “in the stampede for vaccines.” In an address to the UN […]
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Sat 05 December 2020: Hundreds of Zimbabweans have been left stranded at the borders of South Africa and Botswana, as officials have blocked entry points. Authorities say the stranded people do not have credible COVID-19 test certificates. The Zimbabwean government recently announced that it was opening land borders with neighboring countries after it eased out […]
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Fri 04 December 2020: More than 213,830 new cases and 2,861 deaths were reported on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally of official data, with several experts projecting the death toll will soon surpass 3,000 per day. Dr Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, said Friday he expected to see […]
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Fri 04 December 2020: Biden also said he would get the COVID-19 vaccine when Fauci says it is safe and would be happy to take it publicly. US President-elect Joe Biden on Thursday said he had asked the government’s top infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci to remain in his post and join his Covid-19 team after he takes office. “I […]
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Fri 04 December 2020: The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the social and economic impact of the virus “is enormous and growing.” He said it’s foolish to believe a vaccine can undo damage from the global pandemic that will last for years or even decades. Speaking to world leaders at the General Assembly’s […]
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