COVID-19: UAE soon one of first countries to vaccinate most of population arabnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from arabnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When the world faced the devastating viral scourge of HIV more than two decades ago, science saved the day. Or so it seemed to some.
Cases of disease associated with HIV infection started popping up in the US by the early 1980s, and by the late 1990s HIV/AIDS had claimed more than 400,000 lives in the country. Then, with the dawn of a new millennium approaching, drug makers won a flurry of approvals from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the antiretroviral (ARV) drugs that would transform the fight against HIV/AIDS. As ARVs became widely available as part of drug cocktails, the overall death rate from HIV/AIDS plummeted. In the US and elsewhere, the pharmaceutical breakthrough transformed the disease from a death sentence into a manageable infection. But that was only half the story.
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Ontario is bracing for a drop of up to 25% in the anticipated supply of Moderna vaccine next week on top of shortages in the Pfizer vaccine that might have fully vaccinated more than 116,000 residents in February.
âThe latest of several updates over the past few weeks is that Ontarioâs allocation of vaccines for February is substantially less than what was first communicated,â Alexandra Hilkene, a spokesperson for Health Minister Christine Elliott, said Saturday. âThis is disappointing news from the federal government and we are once again determining the impact further reductions will have on Ontarioâs vaccination rollout.â
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DAVOS 2021: COVID-19 crisis won t end until developing nations get vaccine Oscar Williams-Grut ISMAILIA EGYPT, Jan. 24, 2021 A medical worker receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Abu Khalifa Emergency Hospital in the northeastern province of Ismailia, Egypt, on Jan. 24, 2021. Egypt started on Sunday vaccinating medical staff with Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine at the hospital in Ismailia, according to a vaccination program by the Egyptian Health Ministry. (Photo by Adel Eissa/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/Adel Eissa via Getty Images)
Life is unlikely to return to normal until the COVID-19 pandemic is stamped out globally, a senior Singaporean politician has said.