Tag: vaccine

Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna making $1,000 profit every second: analysis

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna are making combined profits of $65,000 every minute from their highly successful Covid-19 vaccines while the world’s poorest countries remain largely unvaccinated, according to a new analysis. The companies have sold the vast majority of their doses to rich countries, leaving low-income nations in the lurch, said the People’s Vaccine Alliance (PVA), a coalition campaigning for wider access to Covid vaccines, which based its calculations on […]

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Pres. Duterte tells IATF, LGUs to issue restrictions for unvaccinated kids going to malls, public places

Reminds parents not to expose their children below 12 years old to COVID danger after death of 2 year old who got COVID after mall visit     (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte instructed the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases to come out with rules that would not allow minors, especially those below 12 years old, to go to malls and other closed spaces so that they would not be exposed to […]

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Israel greenlights vaccinations for 5-11 year olds

JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel gave the green light Sunday to start vaccinating children aged between five and 11 against Covid-19 using Pfizer/BioNTech jabs, following the example of the United States. “The director general of the ministry of health… authorised the vaccination of children aged five to 11 years,” the health ministry said in a statement. Israel was one of the first countries to launch a vaccination campaign last year using the jabs thanks to a […]

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China donates 500,000 more vaccine doses to Syria

DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — China donated 500,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine on Sunday to war-torn Syria, which has one of the world’s lowest inoculation rates and what the UN called an alarming rise in cases. The latest shipment raises to almost two million the number of such deliveries to Syria in a week. Less than two percent of Syria’s population have been vaccinated and cases of infection are spiking, United Nations under secretary-general Martin Griffiths […]

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WHO urges more targeted vaccination as Covid cases surge in Europe

  GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — As Covid-19 cases balloon again in Europe, the World Health Organization called Friday for more targeted vaccination efforts to ensure the most vulnerable worldwide get the jabs. The UN health agency said Europe, once again at the epicentre of the pandemic, registered nearly two million Covid cases last week. That is “the most in a single week in the region since the pandemic started,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told […]

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Indian Covid vaccine ‘highly efficacious’: study

PARIS, France (AFP) — Covaxin, the first Covid-19 vaccine developed in India, is “highly efficacious” and presents no safety concerns, according to a study published in the Lancet on Thursday. Covaxin, developed by Bharat Biotech, gained emergency approval from the World Health Organization last week and has already been cleared for use in 17 countries. The UN body has described it as “extremely suitable for low- and middle-income countries due to easy storage requirements”. Some […]

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PHL targets to inoculate 15-M Filipinos during Nat’l Covid Vaccination from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1

(Eagle News) – The Philippines targets to vaccinate at least 15 million individuals in the three days of National Covid-19 Vaccination campaign scheduled on Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 this year, Malacanang said on Thursday, Nov. 11. Around five million Filipinos are expected to be vaccinated in each day of the National COVID-19 Vaccination Day, according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr., “Bayanihan po ang konsepto natin dito, kung saan ang kooperasyon ng lahat ay […]

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Sputnik V developer calls for mandatory vaccines in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — The developer of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V has said Moscow should make jabs mandatory as inoculation rates remain low despite record deaths and campaigning by authorities. His call came as Russia reported a record 1,239 Covid deaths in a single day Wednesday. Only 34 percent of the country is fully vaccinated, even though Sputnik V — the world’s first Covid vaccine — has been widely available since December last year. […]

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Parents targeted with misleading warnings on Covid-19 vaccination

by Marisha GOLDHAMER WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Registered nurse Melody Butler seeks to provide science-based answers to American parents as she urges them to vaccinate their children against Covid-19. But her efforts to do so on social media through Nurses Who Vaccinate — a volunteer group she founded — is up against a deluge of claims that the shots are dangerous. The claims are designed to evoke fear: a 16-year-old girl said to have […]

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Covid booster demand surges in France after Macron’s speech

PARIS, France (AFP) — Demand for Covid booster jabs jumped in France after President Emmanuel Macron said a top-up dose would be necessary for people to retain their vaccine passes, the country’s main appointment booking site said Wednesday. “The Macron effect” prompted 149,000 requests for shots, most during and immediately after the president’s televised address on Tuesday evening, in which he warned that coronavirus cases were again on the rise, Doctolib said. Anticipation of the […]

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900,000 US kids aged 5-11 get Covid vaccine in a week

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States immunized around 900,000 children aged five-to-11 against Covid in the first week the Pfizer vaccine was authorized for them, a White House official said Wednesday. Roughly 700,000 more have made appointments at pharmacies, White House Covid coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters. “The program is just getting up to full strength,” he said, adding most of the shots were given in the last couple of days alone. There […]

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England to require vaccination for all health service workers

by James PHEBY LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — All frontline workers in the National Health Service (NHS) in England will need to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 from April 1 or lose their jobs, Health Minister Sajid Javid said on Tuesday. “Having considered the… advice of my officials and NHS leaders including the chief executive of the NHS, I have concluded that all those working in the NHS and social care will have to be […]

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