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First person to get vaccine still beaming

LONDON—It was the shot in the arm that made history: in December last year British grandmother Margaret Keenan became the first person in the...

EU clears J&J vax, says blood clots ‘very rare’

Europe's medicines regulator said Tuesday that blood clots should be listed as a “very rare” side effect of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine, but that...

Photo break

A health frontliner takes a picture of a vial of coronavirus vaccine inside the Ospital ng Maynila on Tuesday. The Hospital Association of the...

WHO experts to meet on AstraZeneca shot as virus cases surge

WHO safety experts prepared to meet Tuesday over the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine whose rollout has been halted in several European countries over blood clot...

UK jabs top 20 million; Czechs on Sputnik

London—Britain said Sunday more than 20 million of its people have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while the rest of...

First 1k Covid vaccine doses to enter Gaza Wednesday

An initial batch of 1,000 coronavirus vaccine doses donated by Russia will enter Gaza on Wednesday, Israel’s defence ministry told AFP after it had...

House welcome

House Majority Leader and Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez (left) warmly welcomes Health Secretary Farncisco Duque during a short meeting at the House of Representatives....

Senators: Give LGUs, private firms free hand

Senators yesterday protested the national government's monopoly on the coronavirus vaccine and the regulatory policy of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in not...

Europe doubles vaccine supply via 300m order

LONDON—Europe rushed to bulk buy more coronavirus vaccine doses and approved more drugs on Friday, as the World Health Organisation called on wealthy nations...

EU ready to help expand vaccine production

The European Union is ready to help drug companies expand coronavirus vaccine production to clear a "bottleneck" in distribution, its top health official said...

Sinopharm avers 75% potent, touts as Asian success

Phase 3 trials of a Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine found it was 79 percent effective, the Chinese pharma giant said Wednesday, lower than rival jabs...

Jordan arrests journalist for alleging officials vaccinated

Jordan has arrested a journalist over an article alleging the coronavirus vaccine had arrived in the kingdom and that officials had received the jab,...

Asian markets fall as virus surge leads to new lockdowns

Asian markets fell across the board Tuesday as surging virus infections force governments to impose tighter containment measures, trumping the rollout of vaccines, while...

New York nurse receives first COVID vaccine in US

A nurse in New York became the first person in the United States to receive the coronavirus vaccine Monday. Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse...
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