The Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus jab has no link to reported post-vaccination deaths and no new side effects, the EU’s medicines regulator said Friday based on the first data from the vaccine’s rollout. The European Medicines Agency said it had looked at the deaths, including a number in the elderly, and “concluded that the data did not...
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Pfizer vaccine only slightly less effective against key South African mutations – study
Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine appeared to lose only a small bit of effectiveness against an engineered virus with three key mutations from the new coronavirus variant found in South Africa, according to a laboratory study conducted by the U.S. drugmaker. The study by Pfizer and scientists from the University of Texas Medical Branch...
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Confusion over AstraZeneca-EU talks on vaccine delay
Confusion erupted on Wednesday over a scheduled meeting between AstraZeneca and the EU to discuss the pharmaceutical group’s delay in delivering its Covid-19 vaccine. An EU official told AFP that AstraZeneca had abruptly pulled out of the meeting — the third called for this week — in what was seen as an escalation in the...
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‘Medical Gathering’ welcomes new law on importing multiple-source vaccine
Head of the “Social Medical Gathering”, Professor Raef Rida, on Saturday, welcomed “the multi-source vaccine import law,” considering that “even though its endorsement came late, yet its better late than never!” Rida revealed that he was in favor of the Chinese vaccine, “because China is the source of the epidemic,” wondering whether “the Lebanese state...
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Astrazeneca COVID vaccine gets approval in Pakistan health minister
Astrazeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine has been granted approval for emergency use in Pakistan, the country’s health minister said on Saturday, the first vaccine against the disease to be given the green light in the South Asian country. “DRAP granted emergency use authorisation to AstraZeneca’s COVID vaccine,” Pakistan’s Health Minister Faisal Sultan told Reuters, referring to the...
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POPE FRANCIS, EX-POPE BENEDICT GET VIRUS VACCINES: VATICAN
Both Pope Francis and his predecessor, former pope Benedict XVI, have received the coronavirus vaccine, the Vatican said on Thursday. The Argentine pontiff, 84, has previously spoken of the importance of the jab in the fight against Covid-19, which has severely curtailed his own love of being among his flock. Under the Vatican’s vaccination programme...