Tag: Pfizer vaccine

• Monday, July 11th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Uruguayan gov't to appeal ruling banning C-19 vax for U-13 people

  

  Uruguayan Health Ministry (MSP) legal advisors are to submit Monday an appeal to Judge Alejandro Recarey's decision to suspend vaccination against COVID-19 of people aged, it was reported in Montevideo.

• Friday, July 8th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Uruguayan official says judge's ruling on vax was “nonsense”

  

  Uruguay's Presidential Secretary Álvaro Delgado Thursday admitted that “rulings are obeyed, but they can be criticized and this ruling is nonsense.” He made those remarks after Surrogate Judge Alejandro Recarey ordered vaccination against COVID-19 of children aged under 13 years of age to be halted.

• Friday, November 5th 2021 - 18:35 UTC

  Pfizer announces pill against COVID-19 which reduces risk by 89%

  

  The Pfizer laboratories Friday announced the development of an experimental pill to treat COVID-19, which the pharmaceutical company claims cuts down the risk of hospitalization and death by 89% of people infected with the virus.

• Friday, July 30th 2021 - 09:56 UTC

  Third dose of Pfizer coming up globally as Delta variant keeps crawling in

  

  The Government of Israel has become the first in the world to decide on the use of a third dose of the Pfizer anticoronavirus vaccine, a move which some other countries are likely to follow suit shortly.

• Wednesday, July 28th 2021 - 07:38 UTC

  Brazil plans to start vaccinating youngsters aged 12 to 17 and reducing spell between Pfizer doses soon

  

  Brazil's health authorities Tuesday announced vaccination of teenagers aged 12 to 17 years against Covid-19 will commence after the entire population aged 18 years and over has received at least one dose.

• Wednesday, May 26th 2021 - 07:47 UTC

  Death of vaccinated William Shakespeare shocks covid-19 UK

  

  The 81-year-old William Shakespeare, who made the news back in December 2020 as the first man to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in the United Kingdom, has passed away of non-coronavirus-related causes, it was reported Tuesday.

• Friday, February 19th 2021 - 10:30 UTC

  Pfizer is testing its vaccine in 4,000 volunteer healthy pregnant women

  

  Pfizer and BioNtech have started an international study with 4,000 volunteers to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of their COVID-19 vaccine in healthy pregnant women, the companies said on Thursday.

• Thursday, February 4th 2021 - 23:59 UTC

  Chile launches vaccination campaign and inoculates 140,000 on the first day

  

  Chile on Wednesday launched its mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19, inoculating people over 90 years old at over 1,400 vaccination centers across the country.

• Sunday, January 24th 2021 - 08:31 UTC

  Pfizer and BioNTech anticipate 2 million doses for Uruguay during 2021

  

  Pfizer Uruguay and BioNTech SE said in a release that Uruguay will be receiving 2,700,00 doses of the BNT162b2 vaccine, based on ARNm, against the SARS-CoV-2 and delivery will take place “progressively during 2021”

• Saturday, January 9th 2021 - 23:55 UTC

  Gibraltar receives first consignment of Pfizer vaccine; inoculation begins Sunday

  

  British Overseas Territory Gibraltar received on Saturday the first consignment of the COVID-19 vaccine supplied by the UK. The vaccine supplied is the Pfizer BioNTech, which has been given to the vast majority of people that have received a COVID-19 vaccination in the U.K.