Tag: Vaccination

• Monday, March 1st 2021 - 08:44 UTC

  People in Europe and US more willing to be vaccinated against Covid-19, survey

  

  The tide is changing and willingness to get a Covid-19 vaccine is on the rise compared to last year, according to a survey of six industrialized countries published on Monday. More people in the United Kingdom, the United States and even vaccine-skeptical France now accept the idea of getting a coronavirus jab, KekstCNC, an international consultancy, said in the survey conducted in February.

• Saturday, February 27th 2021 - 18:21 UTC

  Uruguay starts vaccination campaign on Monday counting 600 deaths due to Covid-19

  

  Without a great media hype, the first 192,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac arrived in Montevideo in the early hours of Friday morning. However, a police operation was deployed throughout the day to begin distributing the vaccines, which will begin to be administered on Monday, March 1, to a small group of essential workers in different parts of the capital and the interior of the country.

• Friday, February 26th 2021 - 21:27 UTC

  Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine can be stored at -20 degrees pharmaceutical freezers

  

  Frozen vials of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine may be stored at temperatures commonly found in pharmaceutical freezers for a period of up to two weeks, the US Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday. The move loosens a previous requirement that the vaccine should be stored at ultra-low temperatures, between -80 to -60 deg C.

• 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.

• 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 - 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.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:15 UTC

  US reaches 500,000 Covid-19 related deaths; vaccination rate of 1,7 million a day

  

  The United States over the weekend reached the grim milestone of 500,000 Covid-related deaths since the start of the pandemic, as the nation's top virus expert warned a semblance of normalcy may not return until the end of the year.

• 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.

• Sunday, February 21st 2021 - 22:11 UTC

  Argentine new Health minister guarantees fairness in access to Covid-19 vaccines

  

  Argentina has a new Health Minister Carla Vizzotti, who was sworn in on Saturday after the country was rattled by a scandal over VIP coronavirus vaccine access. The incoming official pledged to strengthen oversight and transparency of the inoculation program.

• Sunday, February 21st 2021 - 17:17 UTC

  WTO chief calls on rich countries to share vaccines now, rather than waiting for the surplus

  

  The World Trade Organization, WTO, chief said that UK and other wealthy nations should send Covid-19 vaccines to poorer countries now rather than waiting for the surplus.