Tag: coronavirus vaccine

• Wednesday, April 21st 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  First batch of Argentine-made Sputnik V vaccine delivered

  

  Argentine laboratory Richmond Tuesday delivered the first batch of locally-produced Sputnik V vaccines against covid-19 to be sent to Russia's Gamaleya Institute for final validation, it was announced.

• Saturday, April 17th 2021 - 12:07 UTC

  Uruguayan President seizes Pfizer vaccines Argentine neglected, press reports

  

  Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou successfully carried out a personal negotiation with the Pfizer laboratory in Buenos Aires in December as talks between the Argentine government and the manufacturers of the vaccine began to stall, it was reported.

• Saturday, April 10th 2021 - 10:58 UTC

  Brazil's Anvisa to check Russian Sputnik V manufacturing plant as need for vaccines soars

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) will be sending a delegation to Russia next week to conduct an onsite review of the facilities where the Sputnik V vaccine is manufactured, it was announced Friday.

• Saturday, March 20th 2021 - 09:07 UTC

  WHO urges countries to continue using the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) exhorted the world to keep administering AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shots on Friday, adding its endorsement to that of European and British regulators after concerns over blood clotting.

• Wednesday, March 17th 2021 - 08:39 UTC

  Regular booster vaccines will be needed against Covid-19, because of mutations

  

  Regular booster vaccines against the coronavirus will be needed because of mutations that make it more transmissible and better able to evade human immunity, the head of Britain's effort to sequence the virus' genomes said.

• Saturday, March 13th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  IDB initiative to help Latin America better compete for Covid-19 vaccines

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced a first-of-its kind initiative that would help Latin American and Caribbean countries better compete to obtain lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines. The instrument would help both countries and vaccine makers resolve indemnity obligations, thereby removing a key obstacle to vaccine contract negotiations.

• Friday, March 12th 2021 - 09:03 UTC

  Europe approves J&J single shot Covid-19 vaccine; some 200 million doses pledged by end of year

  

  Europe approved Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday and is expected to be delivered in a month. The COVID-19 shot is the fourth to be endorsed for use in the European Union after vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca-Oxford University, and Moderna, and is recommended for those over 18 years of age, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said.

• Thursday, March 11th 2021 - 09:44 UTC

  Rich countries block a Covid-19 vaccines patent rights waiver

  

  The rich members of the World Trade Organization blocked a push by over 80 developing countries on Wednesday to waive patent rights in an effort to boost the production of Covid-19 vaccines for poor nations.

• Thursday, March 11th 2021 - 09:07 UTC

  Great victory for Biden: on Friday he signs the US$ 1,9 trillion American Rescue Plan

  

  Great victory for president Joe Biden: US Congress on Wednesday passed the enormous Covid-19 economic relief package --the greatest support program since the end of World War II--, which will inject billions to families and businesses.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  UK/EU controversy over “vaccine nationalism” and exports bans

  

  European Council President Charles Michel on Tuesday rejected charges of “vaccine nationalism” leveled against the EU, saying that while Britain and the United States have outright bans on exports of COVID-19 shots, the EU had not stopped exporting.