[ad_1] “Vaccines offer great hope of turning the tide of the pandemic,” said the WHO Chief. (Archive) Geneva: The director of the World Health Organization, marking a year since China reported the first cases of the new coronavirus, urged countries on Wednesday to ensure that vaccines are available to people …
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[ad_1] In early 2020, the Beijing Institute of Biological Products created an inactivated coronavirus vaccine called BBIBP-CorV. Later, the Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm subjected it to clinical trials. On December 30, Sinopharm announced that the vaccine was 79.34 percent effective. The vaccine is now used in Bahrain and the United …
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[ad_1] US Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) (Ken Cedeno / Pool via REUTERS / File Photo) Republican Senator Josh Hawley pledged Wednesday to challenge Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s victory when Congress meets for an official recount of electoral votes, which could spark a lengthy Senate debate but has virtually no chance. …
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[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – Attorney General Menardo Guevarra said Wednesday that he had ordered an investigation into the use of a non-locally registered vaccine to inoculate presidential guards against COVID-19, as it could have violated various laws, contrary to the assertions of administration officials that it was not. illegal. Guevarra …
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[ad_1] There is no indication that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 was responsible for the death of an elderly person in Switzerland within days of receiving the vaccine, Swiss authorities said Wednesday. The Swissmedic regulatory authority and regional authorities in the central canton of Lucerne confirmed reports that a 91-year-old …
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[ad_1] The Philippine National Police (PNP) has signed contracts for weapons and defense equipment manufactured in Israel worth almost 1,500 million pesetas. The agreements, according to the PNP, were for security teams that allowed savings of P108 million since they were made through government-to-government agreements. PNP chief Debold Sinas said …
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[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks to the media in Sacramento, CA, USA, March 3, 2020. REUTERS / Gabriela Bhaskar LOS ANGELES – The highly infectious variant of coronavirus originally discovered in Britain was detected in California, Governor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday, a day after the first known …
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[ad_1] Dr. Richard Bates drove nearly 150 miles earlier this month to bring a cooler with 130 doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine from MidMichigan Medical Center in Midland to his hospital in Alpena, a city of about 10,000 people in the Lake’s Thunder Bay. Ferret. The trip takes …
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[ad_1] The Vermont independent, who joins Democrats, is forcing the Senate to navigate a maze of procedural hurdles before taking a final vote to undo the presidential veto on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It does so because McConnell refuses to vote as a stand-alone bill a measure passed …
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[ad_1] MIAMI • The Miami Heat are happy their rematch with the Milwaukee Bucks comes just a day after their painful first clash. On Tuesday night, the Bucks set a National Basketball Association (NBA) record by sinking 29 3-pointers en route to trampling last season’s losing finalists 144-97. “Everyone in …
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