Several medical staff working in the health department of the “UNRWA” agency received the vaccine against the Coronavirus at Saida Governmental Hospital, in the presence of the Director-General of the Agency of UNRWA in Lebanon Claudio Cordone, Secretary of the Fatah movement and the “Palestine Liberation Organization” factions in Lebanon, Fathi Abu Al-Aradat, Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Director of the Governmental Hospital Dr....
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North Korea Tried to Hack Pfizer for Vaccine Data, Seoul Says
North Korea attempted to hack Pfizer Inc. for information on its Covid-19 vaccine and treatments, South Korean lawmakers said Tuesday after a briefing by the country’s spy agency. Microsoft Corp. said in November hackers from North Korea, as well as Russia, had targeted seven prominent companies working on the Covid-19 vaccine and treatment research. Pfizer...
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Doctors’ Syndicate Dean: Vaccine is effective and safe
Head of the Doctors’ Syndicate, Professor Sharaf Abu Sharaf, said after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine at St. George Hospital in Beirut today: “There is no health or economy without a vaccine and rapid herd immunity. The vaccine is effective and safe. This has been proven by scientific studies and research, not to mention 300 million...
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Health Minister from Beirut Airport: The vaccine will reach every citizen without political or sectarian considerations
Caretaker Minister of Public Health, Hamad Hassan, expressed his “great satisfaction for the arrival of the Pfizer vaccine in Beirut, a year after the first Coronavirus infection appeared in Lebanon.” Speaking from Beirut airport, he said: “The government was able, despite all the challenges, and with the support of the President of the Republic, the...
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Virus expected to last longterm despite global vaccine rollout
The head of the EU’s disease control agency warned Friday that the novel coronavirus could last indefinitely even as global infections slowed by nearly half in the last month and vaccine rollouts gathered pace in parts of the world. In an interview with AFP, ECDC chief Andrea Ammon urged European countries in particular not to...
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Araji: Vaccine is a successful treatment against COVID
Head of the Parliamentary Health Committee, MP Assem Araji, stressed that “the vaccine is a successful and effective treatment against Corona and the only way to reach safety for all of humanity.” Araji praised “the media platform launched by the Ministry of Information with the aim of educating people about the importance of vaccination to...
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China has approved the use of the second locally developed vaccine against COVID19
France-Press Agency reported that the authorities responsible for the pharmaceutical sector in China have given a “conditional green light” to use the second vaccine against COVID-19 developed in the country, called “Corona Vacc”, which was developed by Sinovac, as announced today by the pharmaceutical industries company. “The approval for the use of the vaccine comes...
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China approves Sinovac Biotech COVID19 vaccine for general public use
Sinovac Biotech said on Saturday that its unit’s COVID-19 vaccine has been formally approved for use by the general public by China’s medical products regulator. Prior to the approval, the CoronaVac vaccine had already been administered in China’s vaccination programme mainly targeting key groups deemed to be at higher risk of exposure to the virus....
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Iran receives its first batch of foreign coronavirus vaccine
Iran on Thursday received its first batch of foreign-made coronavirus vaccines as the country struggles to stem the worst outbreak of the pandemic in the Middle East. The shipment consists of 500,000 doses of Russian-made Sputnik V vaccines which arrived at Tehran’s Imam Khomeieni International Airport from Moscow, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Also Iranian state TV quoted...
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Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine 91.6% effective: Lancet study
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 91.6 percent effective against symptomatic Covid-19, according to results published in The Lancet on Tuesday that independent experts said allayed transparency concerns over the jab, which Moscow is already rolling out. Sputnik V — named after the Soviet-era satellite — was approved in Russia months before results from its final-stage...