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(Eagle News) — The COVID-19 vaccine Moderna has already applied for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Zuellig Pharmaceuticals filed the application for EUA, on behalf of Moderna. The application came more than a month before the scheduled arrival of the initial doses of Moderna vaccines. The first batch of Moderna vaccines are expected to arrive on June 15. In an earlier interview, FDA director general Eric Domingo said […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi said Monday that it would help Moderna produce its cutting-edge Covid-19 vaccine in the United States, as it pursues development of its own jab for the virus at home. The company’s production site in Ridgefield, New Jersey, just outside New York City, will carry out “fill and finish” operations for up to 200 million doses starting in September for distribution worldwide. “We are one of the few […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — The first shipment of Covid medical supplies from Britain to India, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived early Tuesday, the foreign ministry said. Foreign ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi tweeted photos of the equipment being unloaded from a German Lufthansa aircraft in New Delhi, calling it “international cooperation at work”. Britain, one of several countries to announce sending help as India’s health care system buckles under a huge surge […]
BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s health regulator on Monday denied a request from several states to import Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, saying it did not have the data needed to verify the jab’s safety and efficacy. “We will never allow millions of Brazilians to be exposed to products without due verification of quality, safety and efficacy, or at minimum, facing the grave situation we are now going through, that the benefits will outweigh the […]
by Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States will send up to 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine abroad, officials announced Monday, as President Joe Biden pledged to “be there” for India in its hour of need. Critics have accused Washington of “hoarding” the British-developed vaccine, which is not authorized in the country and will likely not be required to vaccinate Americans. The issue has risen to the fore in […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — South Africa announced Monday it would shortly resume using Johnson & Johnson anti-Covid vaccines, two weeks after the jab was suspended to vet risks over blood clots. The vaccine will be included in South Africa’s much-delayed anti-Covid vaccination campaign from Wednesday after being given the green light by SAHPRA, the country’s health watchdog. “It has since been established there is a one in a million chance of getting the clot […]
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AFP) — Kazakhstan on Monday rolled out its homegrown coronavirus vaccine, with the Central Asian country’s health minister receiving the jab on live television. QazCovid-in, also known as QazVac, is a two-shot vaccine that is currently in third stage trials. The state broadcaster Khabar said that 50,000 doses of the vaccine developed by the state-backed Research Institute for Biological Safety Problems have been distributed across the vast oil-rich country. Health Minister Alexei Tsoi told […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccinations can restart, US health regulators said Friday, after the shots’ rollout was paused due to worries over blood clotting. Health authorities in the United States on April 14 proposed a halt on the vaccine following instances of severe blood clots among a handful of the millions of Americans who received the vaccine. The news came shortly after an expert panel recommended lifting the pause because […]
by AFP Bureaus PARIS, France (AFP) — The number of Covid-19 jabs administered globally surpassed the one billion mark on Saturday, offering hope even as the number of virus cases worldwide hit a new daily record mainly due to an explosion of infections in India. At least 1,002,938,540 vaccine doses have been administered in 207 countries and territories, according to an AFP tally. Nevertheless, the number of new infections topped 893,000 worldwide on Friday, a […]
By Dr. Ma. Angela Leonor Aguinaldo Contributor/columnist I lost a close relative to Covid-19 this past week. It was unexpected. His family thought that he would make it but he did not. Sadly, this occurrence is not anything new. There is this stark reality that even with a sliver of hope, Covid-19 hits us where it hurts the most. Indeed, the news of my relative came along with other posts from close friends, […]
(Eagle News) – Health Secretary Francisco Duque III was vaccinated with Coronavac, a brandname of the Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19, on Friday, April 23. Duque was given the SInovac jab at around 10 a.m. at the Department of Health office compound where some 70 more DOH officials are also set to be vaccinated. He is vaccinated as part of the A2 sector (elderly group) in the vaccine priority list. Health Undersecretary Gerardo Bayugo administered […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — The Syrian government received more than 200,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine via the Covax programme Thursday, state media said, in the first such shipment to government-held territory. The delivery comes as Syria’s war-ravaged medical sector grapples with a Covid-19 outbreak that has accelerated rapidly in recent months. The health ministry “received the first batch of vaccines provided by the Covax platform, which consist of 203,000 doses,” the official SANA news […]
