New COVID-19 mutation in Finland may escape PCR tests
Virus variants have been scientists' main struggle while vaccine efforts started to pick up steam around the world against the global COVID-19 pandemic, and now a new strain in Finland may have mutated in a way that enables it to escape detection in
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Only 10 countries used 75% of world's COVID-19 vaccines, UN says
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sharply criticized the “wildly uneven and unfair” distribution of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, saying 10 countries have administered 75% of all vaccinations and demanding a global effort to get all people in
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RFE/RL: Serbia donates thousands of doses of COVID-19 vaccine to North
Serbia has donated 4,680 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to neighboring North Macedonia
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WHO publishes public health research agenda for managing infodemics
In February of 2020, when much of the world was just wrapping its mind around the COVID-19 fundamentals, and trying to navigate the flood of information about it, WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, raised the alarm that “we’re not
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COVAX publishes first interim distribution forecast
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI),Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the World Health Organization, as co-leads of the COVAX initiative for equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines, alongside key delivery partner UNICEF, are
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COVAX Statement on New Variants of SARS-CoV-2
The emergence of variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, serve as a powerful reminder that viruses by their very nature mutate, and that the scientific response may need to adapt if they are to remain effective against them.
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WHO lists two additional COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use and COVAX
AstraZeneca/Oxford-developed vaccines to reach countries in the coming weeks
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COVAX Statement on WHO Emergency Use Listing for AstraZeneca/Oxford CO
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI),Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and the World Health Organization (WHO),as co-leads of the COVAX initiative for equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines, alongside key delivery partne
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World Waking Up To Vaccine Equity
At the halfway point in the World Health Organization and Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ 100-day challenge, a movement of people and organizations is now uniting together under the banner of vaccine equity. WHO welcomes the new commit
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