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Year Ender: Scientific blueprints to overcome Covid-19 Pandemic

42:08 2020 has been characterized as one of the worst years in living memory with the Covid-19 pandemic having a catastrophic knock-on effect on other crises like climate change, socia

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Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine 78% effective in Brazil trial

A coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech was 78 percent effective in a late-stage Brazilian trial with no severe COVID-19 cases, researchers said on Thursday.Dimas Covas, director o

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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman slams ageism in U.S. vaccine rollout

Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York City, U.S., May 8, 2017. /Reuters Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital M

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UAE announces to produce China's COVID-19 vaccine

00:38 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) plans to start manufacturing Sinopharm's coronavirus vaccines and also buy millions of doses from the company, the country's Ministry of Health and

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EU medicines watchdog approves Moderna vaccine

The Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency (EMA)said it has authorized Moderna's coronavirus vaccine.

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Israeli leaders agree to tighten nationwide COVID-19 lockdown

An Israeli man receives a vaccine against the COVID-19 at the northern Israeli town of Umm el-Fahm on Jan. 4, 2021. (Xinhua/Muammar Awad) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Alternat

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Israel's health ministry authorizes use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine

U.S. drugmaker Moderna Inc. said on Monday that Israel's health ministry had authorized its COVID-19 vaccine, marking the vaccine's third regulatory authorization and the first outside North America.

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U.S. may cut some Moderna vaccine doses in half to speed rollout, official says

The U.S. government is considering giving some people half the dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in order to speed vaccinations, a federal official said on Sunday.Monc

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Cambodia reopens schools as Indonesia starts inoculations

Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen speaks at a press conference on the latest situation of COVID-19 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 7, 2020. /Xinhua Cambodia has started reopening s

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Egypt licenses China's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed said on Saturday that the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese drugmaker Sinopharm has been officially licensed for emergency use i

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China's vaccine monitoring index for adverse reactions reaches WHO standard

China's monitoring index for adverse reactions to vaccines has reached the World Health Organization (WHO)'s standard, Wang Huaqing, chief expert of vaccination plannin

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Coronavirus: India approves vaccines from Bharat Biotech and Oxford/AstraZeneca

India has formally approved the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines as it prepares for one of the world's biggest inoculation drives.The drugs regulatory authorit

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China's index for adverse reactions to vaccines reaches WHO standard

China's monitoring index for adverse reactions to vaccines has reached the World Health Organization (WHO)'s standard, Wang Huaqing, chief expert of vaccination planning at the Chinese Center for Dis

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India approves Oxford-AstraZeneca, Bharat Biotech's vaccines

India's drugs regulator on Sunday officially approved the emergency use of Covishield, Oxford-AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, as well as Bharat Biotech's Covaxin.

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Britain to allow mixing of COVID-19 vaccines on rare occasions

Despite having no evidence about the extent of immunity offered by mixing COVID-19 doses, Britain says, it will allow people to be given shots of different COVID-19 vaccines on rare occasions. /A

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UK: Nationwide vaccine roll-out slated for Monday

A staff member of the National Health Service (NHS) claps outside Royal Berkshire Hospital during the weekly "Clap for Our Carers" campaign in Reading, Britain on April 23, 2020. /Tim Ireland/Xin

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Coronavirus: Russia gives jabs to over 800,000

Over 800,000 people in Russia have been vaccinated as at now against coronavirus and more than 1.5 million vaccine doses have been dispatched, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Saturday. /