Thu 07 October 2021: Moderna plans to invest about $500 million to build a factory in Africa to make up to 500 million doses of mRNA vaccines each year, including its COVID-19 shot, as pressure grows on the pharmaceutical industry to manufacture drugs on the continent. Moderna’s proposed site will also include bottling and packaging capabilities. The company said […]
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Wed 06 October 2021: On Wednesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that all rail and air passengers, as well as employees, will be required to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. “Today we are fulfilling two of our main commitments — mandatory vaccination for federal employees and mandatory vaccination for travel,” Trudeau said. The mandatory vaccine […]
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Wed 06 October 2021: The Department of Health has confirmed that its currently testing South Africa’s digital COVID-19 vaccine certificate to “troubleshoot” all possible glitches ahead of the official launch. This comes after the South African COVID-19 Vaccine Certificate System portal went live on Tuesday. The system will allow users to create a QR code […]
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Wed 06 October 2021: The World Health Organization is still evaluating data on Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine in the aim of approving it for emergency use against coronavirus, but no decision is imminent. The clarification comes after Russia’s Health Minister Mikhail Murashko reportedly stated in recent days that administrative concerns were among the main holdups […]
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Wed 06 October 2021: According to the BBC, the Indian government has promised to pay $674 in compensation for each death caused by the COVID-19 virus. Following a plea by lawyers seeking compensation under the country’s disaster management laws, India’s supreme court has approved the government’s decision. COVID-19 has claimed the lives of at than […]
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Wed 06 October 2021: According to the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA), Saudi Arabia’s General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque has began disinfection and sanitation works in Mecca’s Grand Mosque. At the Grand Mosque, strict COVID-19 preventative measures have been implemented, with a focus on sterilization and disinfection […]
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Wed 06 October 2021: South Africa has administered 197 698 COVID-19 jabs in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of doses to 18 285 920. Meanwhile, the Department of Health said 9 364 725 adults are now fully vaccinated, of which 141 865 people were jabbed with Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine or the two-dose Pfizer vaccine […]
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Tue 05 October 2021: If the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approves Molnupiravir, a developing oral therapy for COVID-19, Australia would buy 300,000 courses, according to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Molnupiravir is a novel COVID-19 medication in the form of a capsule developed by Merck Sharp & Dohme and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics. According to the inventors, […]
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Mon 04 October 2021: According to a Thai official, Thailand’s government is in talks with Merck & Co. of the United States to buy 200,000 courses of the company’s experimental antiviral tablet for COVID-19 treatment. Many Asian countries are scrambling to secure early quantities of the potential treatment after falling behind Western nations in the […]
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Mon 04 October 2021: Governments around the world need to drastically reduce their restrictions on air travel in response to the coronavirus pandemic and standardize their policies, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). “IATA called for an end to wildly inconsistent COVID-19 travel restrictions that are stalling the recovery of air transport,” the […]
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