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Nigeria prepares to get first 100,000 Pfizer vaccine doses
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Lagos [Nigeria], January 20 (ANI/Sputnik): Nigeria is getting ready to receive the first batch of 100,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 in the coming weeks, Faisal Shuaib, CEO of National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) said.
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Pfizer, BioNTech to scale-up vaccine production amid reports on shortage i
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Washington [US], January 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Pfizer and BioNTech pharmaceutical companies have developed a plan to scale-up the production of the vaccine against COVID-19 amid reports on reduction in vaccine deliveries to some EU countries, the companies said.
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China's Sinovac vaccine shows 50.38 pc efficacy in Brazil, less than claim
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Brasilia [Brazil], January 13 (ANI): The Chinese Sinovac vaccine has been found to be far less effective than vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, according to a Brazil government statement on Tuesday, which raised questions about the lack of transparency of Chinese-made vaccin
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Biden receives second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 12 (ANI): US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday (local time) received his second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in a continued bid to bolster public confidence in the vaccination program.
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Netanyahu receives second dose of COVID-19 vaccine
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Tel Aviv [Israel], January 10 (ANI): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday received a second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech anti-coronavirus vaccine, along with Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, CNN reported.
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EU secures deal to double Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine supply
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], January 9 (ANI/Xinhua): The European Union (EU) has secured a deal to double the supply of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, bringing its total to 600 million doses, President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen said on Friday (local time).
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Nearly 477,000 Germans have received Covid-19 vaccinations
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Berlin [Germany], January 9 (ANI/Xinhua): A total of 476,959 people in Germany have been vaccinated against Covid-19 since the beginning of the vaccination program on December 27, up by almost 51,000 within one day, said the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Friday.
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Australian health minister announces earlier start for COVID-19 vaccine ro
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Canberra [Australia], January 6 (ANI/Xinhua): Australia's Health Minister Greg Hunt announced on Wednesday that the country's coronavirus vaccine rollout will begin weeks earlier than previously planned.
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Covid-19: Bulgaria reports 4 cases of side effects from Pfizer/BioNTech va
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Sofia [Bulgaria], January 4 (ANI/Sputnik): Four Bulgarians vaccinated against Covid-19 with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine developed mild to moderate side effects, Bulgarian Drug Agency executive director Bogdan Kirilov said on Monday.
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Experts, politicians slam Germany for not buying adequate coronavirus vacc
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Berlin [Germany], January 3 (ANI): Amid the surge in COVID-19 cases, experts and politicians slammed Germany for not buying enough doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to quickly roll out its immunisation programme.
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Finland confirms first adverse reaction to Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccin
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Helsinki [Finland], January 2 (ANI/Sputnik): The Finnish Medicines Agency has received the first report of an adverse reaction to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against coronavirus a week after Europe started its mass immunization campaign, the Finnish YLE broadcaster reported on Saturday.
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WHO issues Emergency Use Validation for Pfizer, BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
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Geneva [Switzerland], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organization said on Thursday it had issued an emergency use validation for the vaccine against the coronavirus developed by the Pfizer and BioNTech companies, the first one since the start of the pandemic.
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