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[ad_1] Canada approved the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday, days after Britain became the first country to green light and launch it. “We finally have reason to be optimistic and excited to return to the lives we led before Covid,” Canadian Deputy Director of Public Health Howard Njoo told a …

[ad_1] (FILES) In this file photo taken on December 5, 2020, a boy wears a Santa hat and mask as he searches for a Christmas tree on a farm in Harrowsmith, Ontario, Canada. – Canada approved the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on December 9, 2020, days after Britain became the first …

[ad_1] WHILE the country is battling the Covid-19 pandemic, the Department of Health (DOH) assured the public that the agency “remains focused and resolute” in its mandate to prevent and reduce HIV transmission as 21 new cases are reported every day. According to the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) HIV …

[ad_1] Johnson & Johnson said Wednesday that it reduced enrollment for its vaccine trial against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to 40,000 volunteers from its original plan to 60,000, as higher rates of COVID-19 infections amid from a worsening pandemic should generate the data you need. with fewer study subjects. The …

[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public Domain Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) accounted for seven of the top 10 causes of death before the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, and heart disease kills more people than ever. The new WHO World Health Estimates, which added data from 2019 to statistics dating …

[ad_1] Local governments in China are placing orders for experimental coronavirus vaccines made in China. Meanwhile, health officials have not said how well they work or how many can reach the country’s 1.4 billion people. Vaccine developers are speeding up final tests, China’s foreign minister said during a United Nations …

[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – While Senate and House leaders agreed on Wednesday to allocate P72.5 billion for the purchase of coronavirus vaccines in the 2021 budget, only P2.5 billion could be funded immediately, as the most of it was deposited in reserve funds that are highly dependent on foreign funds. …

[ad_1] (CNN) – On Wednesday, Canada’s health department approved an emergency coronavirus vaccine for its own country, a day before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration meets to decide whether to do the same. Health Canada determined that the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine for Covid-19 meets the department’s safety, efficacy …

[ad_1] The need for clarity on the safety and efficacy of China’s vaccines has become more urgent after Sinopharm revealed that it had already vaccinated about a million people even before the end of clinical trials. The campaign has alarmed foreign scientists who say it exposes people to undue risk. …

[ad_1] Russia has denied a Turkish newspaper report that Turkey will not buy the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine from Russia. Russia’s state TASS news agency on Wednesday quoted Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca as telling Habertürk newspaper that the vaccine had not been licensed in Turkey. TASS later quoted a …