Tag: Vaccination

• Monday, December 27th 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Bolivia receives the donation of 3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

  

  A shipment of 3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine has landed in Bolivia Sunday. The batch of the Sinopharm drug is China's largest donation ever to the South American country and will be used particularly on children aged between 5 and 11 years old.

• Friday, December 24th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Ecuador makes COVID-19 vaccination mandatory

  

  The Government of Ecuador has decided to make vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory, except for people with a medical condition that renders the shot counterproductive, it was announced Thursday.

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2021 - 23:05 UTC

  Uruguay, EU agree on reciprocity regarding digital vaccination certificates

  

  Uruguay Tuesday became the fifth country to join the European Union's covid-19 certificate program. It is also South America's first.

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2021 - 13:01 UTC

  Biden outlines new COVID-19 situation in the US amid Omicron

  

  US President Joseph Biden Tuesday said the new Omicron variant of SARS-Cov-2 was something “we should all be concerned about,” but it was nothing to panic for those fully vaccinated. ”If you got your booster shot, you’re highly protected,” he added.

• Tuesday, December 21st 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  Omicron affects vaccinated and survivors alike, WHO says

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) Monday warned that the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2 “infects those vaccinated and those recovered from coronavirus” alike, according to statements from Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

• Tuesday, December 21st 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Novavax added to COVID-19 immunizers approved for European use

  

  The US-developed NOVAVAX vaccine against COVID-19 has been approved Monday by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), thus becoming the fifth drug of its kind to become available at a continental level.

• Monday, December 20th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  German streets crowded with demonstrations against vaccines

  

  Ordinary citizens opposing anticovid measures and mandatory vaccination were mixed with neo-nazi groups and members of the far-right “identity movement” during Sunday's protests which garnered some 12,000 demonstrators in the German city of Nuremberg against the Governments sanitary decisions which compromise individual liberties.

• Friday, December 17th 2021 - 19:54 UTC

  Biden foresees tragic winter ahead for those unvaccinated against COVID-19

  

  US President Joseph Biden Thursday forecast a quick spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus throughout his country this winter and an ensuing outbreak of “severe illness and death for the unvaccinated.”

• Thursday, December 16th 2021 - 20:30 UTC

  Brazil's STF upholds vaccination pass for incoming travelers

  

  Brazil's Supreme Federal Court has ratified in plenum a preliminary ruling by Justice Luis Roberto Barroso whereby migration authorities shall require foreign travelers to submit proof of vaccination against COVID-19 before being allowed into the country.

• Tuesday, December 14th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  Brazil's STF rules proof of vaccination be required to foreign travelers

  

  Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) has ruled over the weekend in favor of a request filed by the opposition to make proof of vaccination against COVID-19 mandatory for all incoming foreign travelers, against the wishes of President Jair Bolsonaro.