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[ad_1] LONDON (REUTERS) – Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old British grandmother, has become the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine outside of a trial after its clinical approval. An early riser, Ms Keenan was hit at her local hospital in Coventry, central England, on Tuesday (December …

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Singapore and China have pledged deeper cooperation in areas ranging from public health to trade with the signing of a historic number of 10 agreements at a major bilateral forum between the two countries, surpassing the nine count last year. The 16th Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC), …

[ad_1] SYDNEY: The western state of Australia began on Tuesday (December 8) allowing travelers from Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) to enter without self-quarantine for the first time in eight months, in the latest sign that the country is returning to some kind of normalcy. Passengers on a Qantas …

[ad_1] LONDON, UK on Tuesday (December 8) hailed a turning point in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic as it begins the largest vaccination program in the country’s history with a new COVID-19 vaccine. The first patients in line for what has been called “V-Day,” those over 80, nursing home …

[ad_1] LONDON (REUTERS) – Britain will begin rolling out the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday (December 8), the first Western country to begin vaccinating its general population in what was hailed as a watershed milestone. in the defeat of the coronavirus. The mass inoculation will fuel …

[ad_1] JAKARTA: Indonesia’s highest Muslim clerical body is expected to issue a halal certification for the COVID-19 experimental vaccine developed by China-based Sinovac Biotech, officials said on Monday (December 7). Certification would be an important step in immunization efforts in the world’s most populous Muslim country, if the vaccine is …

[ad_1] SEOUL: South Korea said on Monday (Dec. 7) it has signed agreements to provide coronavirus vaccines to 44 million people next year, as the country battles a wave of infections that authorities say could overwhelm its system. doctor. The government has agreed to buy 20 million doses each from …

[ad_1] BRUSSELS / LONDON: British and EU leaders will meet face-to-face to try to seal a post-Brexit trade deal after failing again to narrow their differences on Monday (December 7), increasing the possibility of a separation messy roads at the end of the month. Just over three weeks before Britain …

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES: Most Californians faced heavy new restrictions on Monday (Dec. 7) aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, while the New York Governor threatened to ban meals at indoor restaurants in the city of New York, as the United States feared infections would continue to rise. Restaurants in …

[ad_1] OTTAWA: Canada will begin receiving its first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine before the end of December, earlier than expected, with millions more by early 2021, authorities said Monday (December 7). The news could help Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s liberal minority government fend off attacks by opposition parties that …