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by Robin MILLARD GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Covax backed the AstraZeneca jab on Thursday as the scheme celebrated shipping coronavirus vaccine doses to 100 different territories around the world, despite delays dogging deliveries. AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine accounts for almost the entire first wave of doses being distributed via the facility, which ensures the 92 poorest participating economies can access jabs for free. But the programme has been hit by delays after New Delhi put the […]
AL WAKRAH, Qatar (AFP) — Qatar is stepping up its coronavirus vaccination drive, officials said Wednesday, with new daily cases almost quadrupling since January and prompting calls for a renewed lockdown. While the country’s death toll per capita is low, almost 5 percent of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic were during the past week, with authorities blaming the more potent British strain. Medical experts have called for a return to the strict summer […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines will get up to 40 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the Gavi COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access facility or COVAX, vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. announced on Thursday, Jan. 21. Galvez announced the development in a televised briefing. While he did not specify which vaccine this was, he said it was “most likely” the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine. “Siguro meron po tayong 30 to 40 million na doses for free para […]
