Tag: Pfizer

• Monday, July 12th 2021 - 08:10 UTC

  Top Argentine health official sees covid-19 vaccination of children “imminent”

  

  The Minister of Health of the Argentine province of Buenos Aires Sunday said other anticovid-19 vaccines were understudy to be used on children aged 3 to 18 in addition to the Pfizer drug.

• Tuesday, July 6th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  More than 50% of Uruguayans vaccinated with both doses

  

  Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas Monday announced his country had already inoculated over half its population against SARS-Cov-2 with two doses of anticoronavirus vaccines.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Rio de Janeiro allows pregnant women to mix one dose of Pfizer with one of AstraZeneca vaccines

  

  Health authorities in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro announced Tuesday that they had approved combination doses of Pfizer and AstraZeneca anticoronavirus vaccines on pregnant women.

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Anti covid-19 vaccination of teenagers starts in Chile with Pfizer

  

  Chile will begin vaccinating people under 18 years of age against the coronavirus, according to an announcement by President Sebastián Piñera Tuesday. The Pfizer drug is the only one to be used in this age group.

• Thursday, June 10th 2021 - 08:42 UTC

  Vaccination for teenagers aged 17 to 12 starts in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay Wednesday became the first country in Latin America to extend its anticovid-19 vaccination campaign to children aged between 12 and 17, it was announced.

• Wednesday, June 2nd 2021 - 08:26 UTC

  Vaccination campaign has reached more than half of Uruguay's population with at least one dose

  

  Uruguay's Public Health Ministry Tuesday reported that around 1,807,000 people, that is 51.15% of the country's population, have already been administered at least one dose of an anti-coronavirus vaccine.

• Saturday, May 29th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Cases of covid-19 in Chile back on the upward trend

  

  Despite one of the strongest vaccination campaigns worldwide and particularly in South America, Chile has reported Friday several new covid-19 infections in the past 24 hours which would indicate the pandemic is back on the upward trend.

• Tuesday, May 25th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Argentine President to sue opposition leader for slander

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday announced he would sue former Security Minister and chairwoman of the opposition Cambiemos Party Patricia Bullrich for slander, following her remarks about the current Government's actions (or inactions) regarding the purchase of Pfizer anticoronavirus vaccines.

• Wednesday, May 19th 2021 - 08:31 UTC

  Canadian lab seeks volunteers in Argentina to test new covid vaccine

  

  The Canadian biopharmaceutical company Medicago is looking for 5000 volunteers in Argentina to prove the effectiveness of a new vaccine against coronavirus, it was announced Tuesday.

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 09:31 UTC

  Brazil could have bought Pfizer vaccines much earlier, but Bolsonaro ignored the offer

  

  Carlos Murillo, general manager for Latin America at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, said Thursday that three offers were made to Brazil during 2020 to supply vaccines against coronavirus, but all were rejected by President Jair Bolsonaro's government.