Caretaker Minister of Public Health, Hamad Hassan, announced Saturday that his Ministry has reached a new contract with Pfizer that guarantees obtaining seven hundred fifty thousand (750,000) additional vaccine doses in the months of May and June 2020, where the total will reach nine hundred ten thousand (910,000) doses by then, which will allow the...
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Ministry of Health: 3588 new coronavirus cases, 55 deaths
3588 new coronavirus cases and 55 deaths have been recorded in Lebanon during the past 24 hours, as announced by the Ministry of Public Health on Friday.
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Stelis Biopharma to make 200 million doses of Russian Sputnik V vaccine
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), the country’s sovereign wealth fund, and Stelis Biopharma, the biopharmaceutical division of Bengaluru-based Strides Pharma, have entered into a partnership to produce and supply a minimum of 200 million doses (enough to vaccinate 100 million people) of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus. The agreement between RDIF and...
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Ministry of Health: 3757 new coronavirus cases, 73 deaths
3757 new coronavirus cases and 73 deaths have been recorded in Lebanon during the past 24 hours, as announced by the Ministry of Public Health on Thursday.
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Ministry of Health: 3544 new infections, 62 deaths
The Ministry of Public Health announced 3544 new coronavirus infection cases, which raises the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 426,977. 62 deaths have been recorded over the past 24 hours.
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Ministry of Health: 3480 new coronavirus cases, 52 deaths
3480 new coronavirus cases and 52 deaths have been recorded in Lebanon during the past 24 hours, as reported by the Ministry of Public Health on Tuesday.
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New coronavirus variant found in French region of Brittany: French government
A new coronavirus variant has been found in the French region of Brittany, said the French health ministry in a statement late on Monday, adding that initial analysis did not show this new variant to be more serious or transmissible than others. The health ministry said the new variant had been found in a cluster...
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Kremlin says pressure on countries to reject Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is unprecedented
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that pressure on some countries to refuse to buy Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 was at unprecedented levels but had no chance of succeeding. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the remarks when asked to comment on a U.S. government report which appeared to show that the United States had...
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Spain, Germany, France, and Italy pause AstraZeneca vaccine rollout
Spain, Germany, France, and Italy have become the latest European countries to temporarily halt the rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine over a small number of blood clot concerns, going against the advice of international medical agencies as a third wave of infections looms over the continent. Spain will stop using the vaccine for two weeks, the...
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Health Ministry: 1,505 new Coronavirus cases, 42 deaths
The Ministry of Public Health announced, on Monday, the registration of 1,505 new Coronavirus infections, thus raising the cumulative number of confirmed cases to-date to 419,953. It also indicated that 42 deaths were recorded during the past 24 hours.