After obtaining clearance for emergency use in the UK and Bahrain, Pfizer Inc has applied for emergency use authorization in India. The UK is preparing for the emergency launches of the Pfizer vaccine and is now in the final planning stages before the vaccination campaign begins on December 14. In …
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The UK has ordered enough doses of the two-shot Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to immunize 20 million. (Archive) Now that Britain has become the first Western country to approve a Covid-19 shot, the spotlight is on the high-risk launch. Vaccinating the nation’s roughly 67 million people will not happen overnight. The UK …
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Britain’s Health Minister Matt Hancock said on Friday that the health service is implementing plans for the coronavirus vaccination program, as it hopes to start Covid-19 vaccines before Christmas. Praising news coming from major coronavirus vaccination studies in the US and UK, Hancock has said that there are encouraging signs …
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The Boris Johnson government on Tuesday reiterated its call for people of Indian, Asian, Afro-Caribbean and other racial backgrounds to volunteer for ongoing vaccine trials, including those at the University of Oxford-AstraZeneca. The non-white community has been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic, prompting the government to launch an investigation. …
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