ROME: Nearly one in four people may not get Covid-19 vaccines until at least 2022 because rich countries with less than 15 per cent of the global population have reserved 51 per cent of the doses of the most promising vaccines, researchers said yesterday. Low- and middle-income countries — home […]
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TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has drawn criticism for joining end of year social gatherings after imploring residents to avoid such parties as the country sees record numbers of coronavirus cases. Despite his own public warnings against large group meals, Suga went ahead with a series of get-togethers this […]
PARIS: While many scientists are racing to find vaccines to tame the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, other researchers are probing the past, trying to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of the virus: Exactly where it came from. The World Health Organization has assembled an international team of 10 […]
HONG KONG: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam today again urged residents of the densely populated city to stay at home and avoid unnecessary family gatherings as the global financial hub scrambles to contain a rise in coronavirus cases. Lam was speaking at her weekly press conference a day after the […]
WASHINGTON: Hopes for a first wave of vaccinations before the end of 2020 received a boost with US firm Moderna saying it was filing yesterday for emergency authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine in the United States and Europe. After top US scientists warned Americans to brace for a “surge superimposed […]
WASHINGTON: America should prepare for a “surge upon a surge” in coronavirus cases as millions of travellers return home after the Thanksgiving holiday, top US scientist Anthony Fauci warned yesterday. The United States is the worst-affected country, with 266,074 Covid-19 deaths, and President Donald Trump’s administration has issued conflicting messages […]
JAKARTA: Indonesia reported its record daily rise in coronavirus infections today with 6,267 cases, bringing the total to 534,266, data from the country’s Covid-19 task force showed. This was the third record high in a week for the Southeast Asian country. The data showed 169 new coronavirus deaths, taking the […]
The doses would cover 13 million out of Thailand’s 69 million population. Thailand on Friday signed a deal to procure 26 million doses of the trial coronavirus vaccine developed by pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca in collaboration with Oxford University. It is expected to be delivered in mid-2021. The doses would cover […]
Sau Paulo governor Joao Doria in an interview on Thursday said Sinovac could be rolled out without approval from the national health regulator, in comments described by health experts as ‘empty threat.’ Sao Paulo could roll out a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac without approval from the national health […]
SAO PAULO: Brazil has gathered enough infection data from a late-stage trial of an experimental Covid-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech and expects to have interim results on its efficiency in early December, trial organisers said yesterday. Dimas Covas, director of Butantan biomedical research institute that is running the […]