Backing the jab: Anti-abortion faith leaders support use of COVID-19 vaccines
DAVID CRARY, of Associated Press, reports on growing support among US Christian leaders for the coronavirus vaccines…
Australia to bring forward COVID-19 vaccine rollout plans
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia will bring forward by two weeks to early March its COVID-19 vaccine rollout plans, health authorities said on Wednesday as the country battles to contain fresh cases in its two largest cities. Australia has repeatedly resisted pressure to expedite its vaccination distribution time table citing low coronavirus cases in the country though […]
UK rolls out AstraZeneca shots, touts taking lead in global vaccine race
London, UKReuters Britain began vaccinating its population with the COVID-19 shot developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca on Monday, touting a scientific “triumph” that puts it at the vanguard of the West in inoculating against the virus. Britain, which is rushing to vaccinate its population faster than the United States and the rest of Europe, […]
India approves two COVID-19 vaccines; US death toll passes 350,000; UK looks to more onerous restrictions
New Delhi, IndiaAP India authorised two COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday, paving the way for a huge inoculation program to stem the coronavirus pandemic in the world’s second-most populous country. India’s drugs regulator gave an emergency authorization for the vaccines developed by Oxford University and UK-based drugmaker AstraZeneca and another developed by the Indian company Bharat […]
Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca: Which COVID-19 vaccine could reach developing countries first?
Thomson Reuters Foundation Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca as it battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus. Britain has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine, and the government said it had […]
Britain first to approve AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine
London, UKReuters Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca as it battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus. AstraZeneca said the authorisation was for a two dose regime and that the vaccine had […]
New Zealand plans vaccine roll-out in second half of 2021
Wellington, New ZealandReuters New Zealand will begin to offer free COVID-19 vaccines to its entire population by the middle of next year, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday. The government said it had secured enough vaccines to inoculate all of the country’s five million people, with two new agreements signed with pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca […]
WHO expects decisions on Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca vaccines in weeks
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The World Health Organization expects to make decisions on whether to give emergency use approval to COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca in the coming weeks, its chief scientist said on Friday. Soumya Swaminathan said the global health body could decide on Pfizer’s vaccine candidate in the next “couple of weeks”, and […]
Explainer: Will COVID-19 vaccines protect us? Does efficacy equal effectiveness?
Reuters The frontrunners in the COVID-19 vaccine race have emerged with different success rates for their shots in clinical trials, but what does that mean for the global fight against the pandemic? US drugmakers Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna have each said their coronavirus vaccines have an efficacy rate of around 95 per cent and a Russian […]
AstraZeneca says COVID-19 “vaccine for the world” can be 90 per cent effective
London, UKReuters AstraZeneca said on Monday its COVID-19 vaccine was 70 per cent effective in pivotal trials and could be up to 90 per cent effective, giving the world’s fight against the global pandemic a third new weapon that can be cheaper to make, easier to distribute and faster to scale-up than rivals. The British […]