FILE PHOTO: A doctor delivers the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus to an 84-year-old man in Berlin, Germany, April 13, 2021. REUTERS/Alessia CoccaBERLIN (Reuters) – German pharmacies have stopped issuing digital COVID-19 vaccination certificates after hackers created passes from fake outlets, the industry association said on Thursday, the latest blow to […]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, or AZD1222) is effective in people living with HIV, at least in the short term, according to an open-label substudy within the protocol of a larger phase-2/3 trial. As Dr. John Frater told Reuters Health by email, “This is the first comprehensive study of […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – As part of a nationwide response to the threat posed by the more contagious Delta coronavirus variant, New York City will require COVID-19 vaccinations or weekly tests for workers at city-run hospitals and clinics. The new policy will go into effect on Aug. 2, Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a […]
FILE PHOTO: Corazon Abaya receives her first dose of Sinovac Biotech’s CoronaVac vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during a house to house vaccination, in Manila, Philippines, May 21, 2021. REUTERS/Lisa Marie David/File Photo/File PhotoMANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines has recorded the country’s first locally transmitted cases of the more infectious Delta coronavirus variant, the […]
(Reuters) – Europe’s drug regulator said on Tuesday it had started a real-time review of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by French drugmaker Sanofi and Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline, the fifth shot under such a review currently. The decision to start the “rolling review” of the vaccine, Vidprevtyn, was based on preliminary results from lab studies and early […]
FILE PHOTO: A sign to respect social distancing is seen at deserted check-in desks at Nice international airport as France closed its borders to travellers outside European Union due to restrictions against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in France, February 1, 2021. REUTERS/Eric GaillardPARIS (Reuters) -France will reinforce restrictions on unvaccinated travellers from […]
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Standard Chartered Bank said on Thursday it is providing $200 million in not-for-profit funding to the African Export-Import Bank’s (Afreximbank) COVID-19 vaccine procurement framework for Africa. The facility is part of Afreximbank’s Advance Procurement Commitment framework, under which it has provided a $2 billion guarantee to manufacturers to secure access to vaccine doses […]
As of July 13, 2021, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has infected over 187 million people and caused the deaths of over 4 million people worldwide. Upon infection by SARS-CoV-2, this virus binds with high affinity to the human angiotensin converting enzyme-2 (ACE2) […]
Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center . It’s been 18 months sine a public health emergency was declared in the United States because of SARS-VoV-2 and questions still swirl around the crisis, as evidenced by an expert panel on Tuesday trying to come up with some hard answers. Even […]
FILE PHOTO: A vial and sryinge are seen in front of a displayed Johnson & Johnson logo in this illustration taken January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo(Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it was in discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about rare cases of a neurological disorder, Guillain-Barré syndrome, that have […]
