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Tag: coronavirus vaccine
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Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 09:15 UTC
Spain to begin a Covid-19 vaccination program in January, president Pedro Sánchez announced
Spain will begin a comprehensive coronavirus vaccination program in January and expects to have covered a substantial part of the population within six months, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Sunday.
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Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 09:00 UTC
Germany ready to begin Covid-19 vaccination in mid-December
Germany could start administering shots of COVID-19 vaccines as soon as next month, Health Minister Jens Spahn was quoted as saying.
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Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 08:38 UTC
US expects to begin Covid-19 vaccination by mid-December, a day after regulatory approval
US healthcare workers and others recommended for the nation’s first Covid-19 inoculations could start getting shots within a day or two of regulatory consent next month, a top official of the US government’s vaccine development effort said on Sunday.
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Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:48 UTC
Pfizer wants emergency distribution of its vaccine simultaneously in US, Europe and Latin America
US drugmaker Pfizer Inc is hoping to rapidly roll out its experimental COVID-19 vaccine around Latin America soon after it gets emergency authorization in the United States, a senior executive said, which could be as early as next month.
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Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:36 UTC
FDA to meet December 10 to decide emergency use of Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's outside advisers will meet on Dec. 10 to discuss whether to authorize the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech for emergency use, the agency said on Friday.
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Saturday, November 21st 2020 - 09:24 UTC
Dr. Fauci blessings to the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines
The United States' top infectious disease official said that two coronavirus vaccines being tested were “solid”, and that the speed at which they were developed has not compromised safety or integrity.
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Thursday, November 19th 2020 - 09:34 UTC
Pfizer offers Brazil millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccine; record acceleration of contagion in the country
Pfizer Inc said on Wednesday it had offered to provide Brazil with millions of doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in the first half of 2021, amid evidence the coronavirus is spreading more rapidly in South America's largest country.
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Tuesday, November 17th 2020 - 09:50 UTC
Dow Jones in record highs on news of another promising Covid-19 vaccine
The S&P 500 and Dow Jones industrial average notched record closing highs on Monday as news of another promising coronavirus vaccine fanned hopes of eradicating Covid-19, while spiking infections and new shutdowns threatened to hobble a recovery from the pandemic recession.
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Wednesday, November 11th 2020 - 09:41 UTC
The RNA “messenger” would be the key to the functioning of the Pfizer vaccine
Europe's leading stock exchanges traded steadily on Tuesday after Monday's euphoria when they were boosted by the announcement of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is 90% effective thanks to a new technology called 'Messenger Ribonucleic Acid' or messenger RNA.
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Monday, November 9th 2020 - 09:05 UTC
Chilean president pledges “sufficient and timely” access to Covid vaccines
Chilean President Sebastian Piñera said the country’s health regulators had given the go-ahead to a clinical trial of the AstraZeneca PLC COVID-19 vaccine. Piñera said the AstraZeneca trial would follow one by America’s Johnson & Johnson that is already underway and another by China’s Sinovac, whose first vaccine doses arrived in Chile last week.
