Tag: COVID Vaccine News
Improvements: Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can now be stored at higher temperatures
The COVID-19 vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech now has less stringent and extreme transportation requirements than when it...
World’s 1st single dose COVID-19 vaccine: J&J files for emergency use...
American pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has filed for emergency authorization of its one-dose COVID-19 vaccine.
The vaccine is 66 percent effective against moderate...
Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine found to be 89.3% efficient
American biotechnology firm Novavax announced that its coronavirus vaccine is more than 89 percent effective in protecting against COVID-19 based on its phase three...
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine only slightly less effective against S.African strain: Study
The COVID-19 vaccine from American drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech appeared to lose only a small bit of effectiveness against an engineered...
Pfizer vaccine may work against new virus variants: Study
The COVID-19 vaccine from US-based drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech appeared to work against a key mutation in the highly transmissible new...
Pfizer vaccine gains WHO’s emergency use approval; Paves the way for...
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that it has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, meaning that poorer countries will soon have...
Oxford vaccine 95% effective if given 2-3 months apart: SII
Oxford University and UK-based AstraZeneca will soon release data showing that if the two shots are separated by around 2-3 months, the efficacy of...
BioNTech vaccine will work against new COVID-19 virus strain: CEO
German pharmaceutical company BioNTech is certain that its coronavirus vaccine, made in collaboration with US-based Pfizer, works against the latest UK strain, but further...
