Tag: COVID-19 vaccine
Tech giants making COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for on-campus employees
Big technology companies in the US are making vaccination mandatory for on-campus employees, while Twitter is shutting its reopened offices in the country, as...
Longer gap between Pfizer COVID-19 doses boosts antibody; Study
An interval of eight to 10 weeks between doses of Pfizer and BioNTech developed COVID-19 vaccine boosts the effectiveness of the two-shot regimen compared...
China’s Sinopharm jab induces weaker antibody responses to Delta; Study
COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm induces weaker antibody responses against the Delta variant, based on the first published study of...
WHO supports mRNA COVID-19 shots despite rare heart risks
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) advisory panel said that there was a "likely causal association" between coronavirus vaccine using mRNA technology and "very rare"...
Early Stage Study offers bright future for Nasal COVID-19 Vaccines
A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Iowa and the University of Georgia has heightened the prospects of a single-dose, intranasal...
G7 pledges 870mn COVID-19 vaccine doses; Half by 2021 end
A senior UN official praised the determination of the Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialized nations to share at least 870 million doses of...
Saudi’s Tabuk Pharmaceuticals to market Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine in Kingdom
Saudi Arabia’s leading pharmaceuticals firm Tabuk Pharmaceuticals has signed an agreement with the US-based biotechnology company Moderna to commercialize the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine and...
G7 to pledge 1bn COVID-19 vaccine doses for poorer countries
The Group of Seven nations (G7) are expected to agree to donate 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries across the globe during...
