Cuba becomes world’s first country to vaccinate toddlers

Highlights

• Cuba becomes the first country to vaccinate kids
• They have vaccinated these kids using their locally manufactured vaccine

On Monday, Cuba became the first country to vaccinate children of age group 2 years old.  They ...

CHINA TO PROVIDE 40 AFRICAN COUNTRIES WITH COVID-19 VACCINES

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• China to provide 40 African countries with COVID-19 vaccines.
• The vaccines were said to be donated or sold at favorable prices.
• China has pledged roughly half a billion doses of its vaccines to more than 45 countries.

CHINA TO PRODUCE COVID-19 VACCINE FOR 70% OF ITS POPULATION

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• China to produce COVID-19 vaccine for 70% of its population.
• China is trying to reshape its pharmaceutical industry.
• More than 100 million doses had been exported by March.
• Biotec has produced 250 million doses...

CHINA PLANS TO BOOST COVID-19 VACCINE EFFICACY RATE BY MIXING IT

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• China plans to boost COVID-19 vaccine efficacy rate by mixing it.
• Gao Fu says that giving people doses of different vaccines is one way to improve vaccines.
• China has developed four domestic vaccines approved for public u...

VACCINATIONS STARTED IN THAILAND IN FULL SWING

HIGHLIGHTS

• Thailand commenced its COVID-19 immunization crusade on Sunday (Feb 28), with clergymen, wellbeing authorities, and clinical experts among the first in the line to get inoculations. 

The first dosages of the vaccine created by C...

ASTRAZENECA TAD INEFFECTIVE AGAINST SOUTH AFRICAN CORONAVIRUS VARIANT

• The world is caught between two poles one being a race with spread of coronavirus variants and the other being inoculating millions.
•  AstraZeneca candidly announced Saturday that early data shows its vaccine has restricted potential and hence limited protection against mil...

CHINA APPREHENDS 80 PEOPLE IN SPURIOUS VACCINE SYNDICATE CLAMPDOWN

• China has admitted it is coming down heavily on a crime ring making "fake vaccines" for Covid-19 that has been in the running since September, state media report has said.
• Police departments in Jiangsu, Beijing and Shandong have  apprehended more than 80 people i...

CHINA’S VACCINE SHOW OF STRENGTH ENDS ON A DISCORDANT NOTE

• China’s coronavirus vaccines were slated for winning that decisive lead in geopolitical landscape by displaying the country’s scientific agility and altruism. On the contrary, they have ticked a setback to the movement.
• Cries of disorganisation are ranting the air i...

CHINESE COVID-19 VACCINES ON THE RADAR FOR PREMATURE APPROVALS AND NEGLECT OF SAFETY

• Chinese authorities have become far too nonchalant by making it a point to approve multiple Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use in the country.
• Approximately a million Chinese have already been vaccinated with one candidate.

Several local governments are alrea...

CHINA ON WARPATH TO LAUNCH COVID-19 VACCINES IN AND ACROSS BORDERS

• District governments across China are busy placing orders for experimental, home-grown coronavirus vaccines, though health officials are yet unsure of their performance or have a question mark to their accessibility by the country’s 1.4 billion people
• Developers are accel...

I MILLION CHINESE ADMINISTERED SINOPHARM VACCINE WITH NOTHING GONE AMISS

• Almost 1 million Chinese have been injected with an experiental Covid-19 vaccine developed by the state-owned Sinopharm under the government’s emergency use scheme, the company’s chairman said.
• China is one of just two countries, along with Russia, known to have use...

CHINESE PHARMA SINOVAC ASSURED OF CORONAVIRUS VACCINE EARLY 2021 ROLLOUT

• A Chinese pharmaceutical company reiterated Thursday the coronavirus vaccine it is developing should be ready by early 2021 for distribution worldwide.
• Yin Weidong, the CEO of SinoVac, said he personally has been given the experimental vaccine called CoronaVac.

CHINA’S COVID-19 VACCINES ON DISPLAY AFTER SOME HULLABALOO

• China has showcased its homegrown coronavirus vaccines for the first time, as the country where the contagion originated looks to bring some semblance to the narrative surrounding the pandemic.
• High hopes dangle on the small encased droplets of liquid put on show at a Beijing t...