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By Danny Ramos and Allison Martell LA PAZ/TORONTO (Reuters) - Bolivia's government said on Tuesday it had signed a deal for a potential 15 million Joh...

Coronavirus digest: Germans face choice to get vaccinated or infected dw.com 1 hr ago dw.com German Health Minister Jens Spahn has urged individuals to get vaccinated as soon as they can rather than risk suffering from COVID. Meanwhile, the death toll in India has risen above 250,000. Follow DW for the latest. © Kay Nietfeld/Getty Images Germanys vaccination campaign has picked up pace recently The German health minister has said that, despite falling daily cases of the COV...

New COVID-19 variant drives infections in India Worldwide The WHO said on Wednesday that the so-called Indian variant of coronavirus has now been detected in 44 countries in all six WHO regions. The UN health agency based its findings on 4,500 samples uploaded on an open-access database. The variant, which is known as B.1.617, is believed to be one of several factors behind the massive outbreak in infections across India. Outside of India, the UK has reported the highest number of COVID case...

Bolivia signs J&J vaccine deal with a twist: someone else would make it Reuters 3 days ago By Danny Ramos and Allison Martell LA PAZ/TORONTO, May 11 (Reuters) - Bolivias government said on Tuesday it had signed a deal for a potential 15 million Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines but with a twist: another manufacture would make the shots and the country would need the World Trade Organization to waive the drugs patent. The South American country, scrabbling for vaccines like many in the regio...

UPDATE 1-Bolivia signs J&J vaccine deal with a twist - it needs WTO patent waiver Reuters 3 days ago (Updates headline, adds vaccination tracker GRAPHIC) By Danny Ramos and Allison Martell LA PAZ/TORONTO, May 11 (Reuters) - Bolivias government said on Tuesday it had signed a deal for a potential 15 million Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines but with a twist: another manufacture would make the shots and Bolivia would need the World Trade Organization to waive the drugs patent. The South Ameri...

Bolivia confirms contacts with Russia to produce Covid-19 vaccines Bolivia confirms contacts with Russia to produce Covid-19 vaccines La Paz, May 3 (Prensa Latina) Bolivias Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, Benjamin Blanco, on Monday confirmed that plans are underway to produce Russian Covid-19 vaccines in the country. We are working with the Russian Investment Fund, seeing what possibilities there are for a Bolivian public or private company to start manufacturing these immunizers, the offic...

President Putin to send more Covid-19 vaccine doses to Bolivia President Putin to send more Covid-19 vaccine doses to Bolivia La Paz, Apr 20 (Prensa Latina) President Vladimir Putin on Monday told his Bolivian counterpart Luis Arce, that Russia will send as many as 5.2 million Sputnik V vaccine doses to the South American nation. During a telephone talk, Vladimir Putin said that in addition to 200,000 doses –which will land in Bolivia on Tuesday- another batch will arrive late April, Luis A...

Bolivia-Brazil border to stay closed ​ By IANS | ​ 2 Views Brazils Covid tally tops 11 mn. Image Source: IANS News La Paz, April 10 : The Bolivian government said it has decided to keep the countrys border with Brazil closed for another seven days to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, especially the Brazilian variant of the virus considered to be more contagious and possibly more lethal. Bolivia first closed its border with Brazil on April 2, with provisions for cross-border trade,...

Covid extends Brazil-Bolivia border closure Xinhua LA PAZ: Bolivia on Friday (Saturday in Manila) said it decided to keep its border with Brazil closed for another seven days to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus disease, especially the Brazilian variant of the virus considered to be more contagious and possibly more lethal. Bolivia first closed its border with Brazil on April 2, with provisions for cross-border trade, and was to lift the ban on Friday. “An epidemiologic...

9 Min Read LA PAZ, March 1 (Reuters) - As Bolivia struggled late last year to secure deals with large drug firms to supply COVID-19 vaccines, the incoming president, Luis Arce, turned to Russia for help. By the end of December, Bolivia clinched its first major COVID-19 vaccine deal, with enough shots for some 20% of the population. The first Sputnik V doses arrived in the country in late January, just as virus cases were spiking. “It was a really marathon task,” said Bolivian trade minister...