Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Friday criticized the U.S. government’s rollout of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, calling the lack of a federal distribution plan “incomprehensible” and “inexcusable.”
Britain’s socialised healthcare system is requiring retired doctors and nurses to meet a checklist that requires “equality, diversity, and human rights” training before they can help administer Chinese virus vaccines.
The deputy chief medical officer for England has warned that even for those who have been vaccinated, social distancing measures will likely remain in place for months.
(AFP) — Britain on Wednesday became the first nation to approve the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, as Germany logged its highest daily death toll with the pandemic surging worldwide.
Spain will keep a registry of people who refuse to have a vaccination for the Chinese coronavirus, and will share the data with other European Union member-states.
Israel began its third coronavirus lockdown Sunday evening, as the country ranked first in the world in the number of vaccinations per capita.
The chief of the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, which developed a coronavirus vaccination with Oxford University, has said they have discovered the “winning formula” to improving efficacy, amidst reports that the vaccine will be approved in the next week.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for a “radical acceleration” of the UK’s vaccination programme and argued for the uptake of “health passports” to ostensibly confront the Chinese coronavirus.
Israel is vaccinating at a much faster rate than the UK and is set to overtake it in a matter of days, a new graph showed, with experts predicating that the country will have achieved herd immunity by Passover.
Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann has softened his position on the moral duty to receive a coronavirus vaccine, saying that his words on the subject had been misinterpreted.
Israel’s nationwide COVID-19 vaccination campaign began on Sunday, with health officials estimating the country will be the first to vaccinate its entire at-risk population.
Germany’s fourth-term Chancellor, Angela Merkel, banged her podium in the German parliament and spoke of families’ “last Christmas with the grandparents” as she moves to shut down the country. 66-year-old Merkel, widely regarded as the most powerful and influential leader
Veteran actor Sir Ian McKellen claims he is feeling “euphoric” after becoming one of the first people in the world to receive the new Pfizer vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus.
Despite controversy in other countries over the possibility of creating a two-tier society where those with vaccination papers have more freedoms than those without, Ireland is considering coronavirus passports, allowing bearers to escape lockdown.
Estimations of how long it could take to vaccinate the entire United Kingdom against the Chinese coronavirus keep getting longer, after the National Audit Office said that even by the end of 2021, only half of the population would be covered.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) believes a management triumvirate comprising big business, central banks and government can play a “pivitol role” in the global take-up of coronavirus vaccinations.
U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci recommended Tuesday that President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris be vaccinated for coronavirus as soon as possible.
The teams behind Britain’s Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine and Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine will join forces to see if their coronavirus prophylactics work better in combination.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday that his government won’t rush approval of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine because he wants people to have confidence in the product.
The European Medicines Agency’s documents on the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine have been hacked by cyber-attackers.
Dr. Anthony Fauci stressed that well over a majority of Americans will need to get vaccinated in order to create a proper “umbrella of immunity over us,” making the remarks during New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) Monday’s press conference.
The UK government has refused to rule out whether the coronavirus ‘immunisation cards’ will be used as immunity passports.
Over one-third of the British public say they are unlikely to take the Chinese coronavirus vaccine, a poll from Opinium has found.
The Greek Council of State has ruled that kindergartens and nurseries can remove pupils who have not been vaccinated.
Boris Johnson’s press secretary said she couldn’t rule out the prime minister volunteering to take the new coronavirus vaccine live on television.
Chinese coronavirus vaccine passport cards will be issued by the government in Wales, the country’s left-wing health minister confirmed on Wednesday. Following the announcement that the United Kingdom would be the first Western nation to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine,
A government advisory committee has advised against pregnant women having the new coronavirus jab because there is not enough data on its safety for that demographic.
BRUSSELS (AP) – With nothing on their agendas for months to come, music festival organizers in Belgium want to use their know-how to help the country’s coronavirus vaccination campaign. The Belgian government has set a goal of vaccinating about 70%
A British army “information warfare” unit has been tasked with countering so-called anti-vaccine disinformation as the UK prepares to roll out millions of vaccines. The Defence Cultural Specialist Unit (DCSU) of the army’s 77th Brigade was founded in 2010 as
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) will launch a campaign fronted by “very sensible” celebrities to persuade people to take coronavirus vaccines, according to reports.
Lockdowns won’t end until anticipated vaccines “come to our aid” in the future and the country can expect a “hard winter”, the PM has said.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has demanded that black people and other ethnic minorities receive priority access to the Chinese coronavirus vaccine.
The majority of Conservative Party voters and a plurality of Britons as a whole are in favour of making the Chinese coronavirus vaccines mandatory, a poll from YouGov has suggested. The survey found that by a margin of 54 per cent
The British government has refused to rule out the notion of making Chinese coronavirus vaccines mandatory if it considers the voluntary administration of vaccines to be inadequate in slowing the spread of the virus. On Monday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock
The overwhelming majority of the British public is in favour of criminalising the dissemination of ‘fake news’ about vaccines, as the left-wing Labour Party has come out in favour of further speech restrictions in the UK under the pretext of
A senior Conservative MP has said that it is possible that once mass vaccination is underway that workplaces and social venues may ban entry to those who do not have a certificate to prove they have been inoculated against COVID-19.
Thousands in South Korea were injected with compromised flu vaccines in recent weeks, Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) admitted on Sunday.
The cancellation of regular medical care during the coronavirus pandemic could yield a “massive wave” of cancer patients.
LONDON (AP) – British researchers testing an experimental vaccine against the new coronavirus are moving into advanced studies and aim to immunize more than 10,000 people to determine if the shot works.
Pennsylvania cannot fully return to normal until a “foolproof” vaccine is available, Gov. Tom Wolf (D) said on Wednesday.
