Tag: vaccines

• Wednesday, June 18th 2025 - 08:42 UTC

  Brazil sees opportunity in mRNA vaccine development

  

  Brazil's Alexandre Padilha admitted Tuesday at the at the 15th BRICS Health Ministers' Meeting in Brasilia that his country was seeking to become a global leader in messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine production, leveraging partnerships with national institutions like the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and the Sao Paulo-based Butantan Institute. Padilha also reckoned other BRICS countries such as China would be engaged in the initiative.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 10:43 UTC

  Over 720,000 COVID-19 vaccines discarded in Paraguay

  

  Paraguayan health authorities have admitted that over 720,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been lost due to expiration or open vials, it was reported in Asunción.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  High income countries called on to share Covid-19 vaccines quickly

  

  The former Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR), Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia, and Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, have expressed their deep concern at the slow pace of redistribution of COVID-19 vaccines from high income to low-income countries.

• Friday, August 13th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Argentina starts distributiing Sputnik V vaccines produced locally

  

  Distribution of the Russian developed Sputnik V vaccine manufactured in Argentina started Thursday with the first batch of 1.14 million doses, it was reported.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 09:19 UTC

  Argentine plans opening of land borders as Uruguay gets ready to allow tourists in, among many improvements

  

  Uruguay will start allowing foreigners in as of September 1 while Argentina announced the reopening of its common land borders is being eyed for September 6, as tourism seems headed for a gradual return to pre-pandemic levels.

• Monday, August 9th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentine Health Minister speaks of “periodic vaccinations” and perks for those who take the shots

  

  Argentine Health Minister Carla Vizzotti has admitted over this past weekend that third doses of coronavirus vaccines were under consideration to face the surge in cases of Delta variant.

• Saturday, July 3rd 2021 - 11:25 UTC

  Argentina green lights arrival of US-developed vaccines by means of an emergency decree

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández has yet again issued another emergency decree (DNU) which would allow for the purchase of anticoronavirus vaccines from suppliers other than those already cleared to be handled in the country.

• Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Diplomatic rift with China results in shortage of active ingredient to produce vaccines in Brazil

  

  São Paulo Governor Joao Doria Friday blamed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for a diplomatic crisis with China, which led to the suspension of supplies to manufacturing vaccines against the coronavirus.

• Friday, April 26th 2019 - 08:33 UTC

  World Immunization Campaign Week

  

  This week is World Immunization Week, which runs until April 30th. This campaign, celebrated worldwide, aims to champion the power of vaccines to protect our health, and prevent outbreaks, according to the World Health Organization.

• Thursday, October 18th 2018 - 08:31 UTC

  Beware of Chinese manufactured vaccines: this time human rabies

  

  A Chinese vaccination firm has been fined US$ 1.3bn after it was found to have illegally produced the human rabies vaccine. Changchun Changsheng had blended different batches of vaccine fluid and used expired fluid to produce some of the batches, according to state news agency Xinhua.