Health & Science

• Wednesday, February 24th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  The Falkland Islands receives second batch of Covid-19 vaccines

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has received its second batch of Covid-19 vaccines, supplied by the UK government. These 2,200 doses arrived today via the South Atlantic Airbridge and are of the same Oxford/AstraZeneca type as the first batch received at the beginning of the month.

• Wednesday, February 24th 2021 - 09:33 UTC

  Covid-19 vaccines: “where's the universal brotherhood” ask Mexican and Argentine presidents

  

  REUTERS – The presidents of Mexico and Argentina on Tuesday pressed the UN and the world's richest countries to improve poorer nations' access to Covid-19 vaccines, arguing efforts are grossly inadequate so far.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 09:56 UTC

  Uruguay starts inoculation campaign March first with Sinovac and Pfizer vaccines

  

  Uruguay will be receiving the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines next Thursday evening and the official inoculation campaign will begin on Monday March first. Over the weekend those in charge of vaccination will be the first to receive the shots, according to president Luis Lacalle Pou.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  Pfizer plans to deliver 13 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine per week to US

  

  Drug maker Pfizer announced it expects to deliver more than 13 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine per week to the United States by the middle of March, more than doubling its shipments from early February, a top Pfizer executive said in prepared testimony ahead of a Tuesday congressional hearing.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 08:53 UTC

  Argentina publishes the VIP list, who received preferential Covid-19 vaccine treatment

  

  The Argentine government has published a list of 70 influential figures, mostly politicians and close friends and family members, who have received preferential vaccine Covid-19 treatment, at the Posadas Hospital in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 08:45 UTC

  Moment of silence and flags at half mast in US to commemorate 500,000 deaths from Covid-19

  

  President Joe Biden led the United States in observing a moment of silence on Monday to commemorate the grim milestone of 500,000 US deaths from Covid-19, urging Americans to set aside partisan differences and fight the pandemic together.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentina authorizes emergency use of Sinopharm's vaccine; one million doses expected

  

  ANMAT, Argentina’s drug regulator has authorized the emergency use of Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine ahead of an expected delivery of 1 million doses of the Chinese-made jab.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  “Gines was a great minister, but what he did was unforgivable”, Argentine president

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez blasted his former health minister, and close friend, Gines Gonzalez García over an “unforgivable” coronavirus vaccine scandal, in quotes published on Sunday.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:21 UTC

  Russia announces approval of CoviVac, a third vaccine for domestic use

  

  Russia approved a third coronavirus vaccine for domestic use, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on state TV, though large-scale clinical trials of the shot, labeled CoviVac and produced by the Chumakov Centre, have yet to begin.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 07:30 UTC

  PM Johnson pledges all UK adults can be vaccinated by end of July

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged that every adult in the United Kingdom should have been offered a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of July. The accelerated vaccine rollout would help protect the most vulnerable sooner and also enable the easing of some restrictions, the prime minister said.