Topic: Vaccine
Europe, US in grip of devastating fourth coronavirus wave
Europe is in the grip of a potentially devastating fourth coronavirus wave and the United States has now recorded more Covid-19 deaths in 2021 than it did in 2020,...
UK threw out 600,000+ Covid vaccine doses in August
The government of the United Kingdom threw out more than 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in August after they expired unused, a revelation that came...
Pfizer Covid vaccine more than 90 percent effective in kids: Study
Kid-size doses of Pfizer’s vaccine appear safe and nearly 91 percent effective at preventing symptomatic infections in 5- to 11-year-olds, according to study details released Friday as the US considers opening vaccinations to that age group.
“We are on the edge of an abyss,” says UN chief António Guterres
Secretary-General António Guterres issued a wake-up call that the world is on the edge of an abyss and “moving in the wrong direction”, as...
World without COVID-19 will not be possible until everyone gets equal access to vaccines
Health leaders agree that a world without COVID-19 will not be possible until everyone has equal access to vaccines.
Vaccine inequity causes ‘dangerous divergence’ in COVID survival rates – UN agency heads
The global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is progressing at “two alarmingly different speeds”, UN agency leaders said in a statement on Friday, noting that less than two per cent of adults are fully vaccinated in most low-income countries compared to almost 50 per cent in high-‑income nations.
