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China: People scramble to get shots of unproven vaccine
18Jan By Joanne SerriehNo Comments
Business, China

China: People scramble to get shots of unproven vaccine

After a spate of quality scandals in its coronavirus vaccine, China is again in the spotlight for making its unproven vaccine candidate widely available to demonstrate their safety and effectiveness.As per media reports, even though China’s vaccine candidates have not formally been proved safe or effective, officials have been injecting them into thousands of people across the country, ostensibly under an emergency-use policy. Government officials and top pharmaceutical executives speak proudly of being inoculated.Ethan Zhang, a resident of Beijing, took a flight to Yiwu in eastern China just to get a shot of the vaccine. He needed to get back to work. Work was in Ivory Coast, however, and since January the global coronavirus outbreak had stranded the 26-year-old translator in mainland Chi
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India set to authorise first set of Covid-19 vaccines, to vaccinate around 300 million
21Dec By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

India set to authorise first set of Covid-19 vaccines, to vaccinate around 300 million

Indian Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has announced that India is about to authorise the first set of Covid-19 vaccines and that there is a need for an expeditious vaccination drive to cover all the target populations estimated to be around 300 million (30 crore).He made the announcement while chairing the 22nd meeting of the high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) on Covid-19 through a video-conference as India crossed the one crore infection mark.He was virtually joined by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep S. Puri, Minister of State Health & Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai, Member (Health) NITI Aayog Vinod K. Paul, Advisers to the Prime Minister Amarjeet Sinha and Bhaskar Khulbe.Reiterating...
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J&K CS chairs maiden meet of UT Steering Committee on covid-19 vaccination
3Dec By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

J&K CS chairs maiden meet of UT Steering Committee on covid-19 vaccination

In the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Chief Secretary, BVR Subrahmanyam chaired the maiden meeting of the UT Steering Committee to monitor the roll-out of covid-19 vaccination.The Committee reviewed the arrangements being made to ensure hassle-free and time-bound delivery of covid-19 vaccines across the union territory.Administrative Secretaries of the departments of Health & Medical Education, Home, Social Welfare, Housing & Urban Development, Information, Transport, Rural Development, Tribal Affairs, besides Mission Director, National Health Mission (NHM) and officers from the Army, CRPF and Northern Railways participated in the meeting, an official handout said.The meeting was informed that various covid-19 vaccines are currently in the third phase of cli...
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‘Great discoveries’ made during my watch: US President Trump on Moderna vaccine
17Nov By Grace TsoiNo Comments
China, World

‘Great discoveries’ made during my watch: US President Trump on Moderna vaccine

Within minutes of US pharma giant announcing that its vaccine has shown nearly 95 per cent effectiveness to protect against COVID-19, US President Donald Trump said historians must remember that it was under his leadership such “great discoveries” were made.“Another Vaccine just announced. This time by Moderna, 95 per cent effective. For those great “historians”, please remember that these great discoveries, which will end the China Plague, all took place on my watch!” Trump tweeted.After Moderna made the announcement the White House credited US President Trump for the progress of the vaccine which has been shown effective for the treatment of coronavirus.While thanking Trump, White House Press Secretary McEnany lauded his administration’s Operation Warp Speed, under which the advancement
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China’s COVID-19 vaccine trials suspended in Brazil after ‘severe incident’
11Nov By Grace TsoiNo Comments
China, World

China’s COVID-19 vaccine trials suspended in Brazil after ‘severe incident’

Brazil's health regulator Anvisa has suspended clinical trials of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in the country following a "severe incident".On Monday, Anvisa said it had "ruled to interrupt the clinical trial of the CoronaVac vaccine after a serious adverse incident". It did not reveal what had happened, nor where it had taken place.It also did not give an indication of how long the suspension of the large late-stage trial of China's Sinovac coronavirus vaccine might last in Brazil.President Jair Bolsonaro hailed the suspension as a “victory” and said that their government would buy whatever coronavirus vaccine is certified by Anvisa.Writing on Facebook, the president said the halt of the CoronaVac trial was "another victory for Jair Bolsonaro".The vaccine, developed by Chinese firm Si
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Pentagon warns China is exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to wage ‘economic warfare’ on the US
19Jun By Grace TsoiNo Comments
World

Pentagon warns China is exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to wage ‘economic warfare’ on the US

Defense officials in the U.S are growing increasingly concerned that China is using the coronavirus outbreak to gain stakes in strategically important businesses as the pandemic leaves struggling companies urgently in need of capital.But even as the Defense Department works to improve supply security, procurement experts warn that the Pentagon may not have the visibility required to help protect smaller companies down the chain. They say the job is only getting harder as the pandemic has broadened the definition of national security interests to include medical supplies. And they point to at least one Chinese-owned company that asked to bid on a Pentagon contract."We have to be very, very careful about the focused efforts some of our adversaries have to really undergo sort of economic warf...
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