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Apr 9, 2021 PHILIPPINE SEA — The U.S. 7th Fleet that operates throughout the Indo-Pacific says more than 14,000 of its service members have received their full doses of the coronavirus vaccine, which it began administering on January 5. “We are in a pandemic and our principle weapon for ending this and saving lives is the vaccine,” vaccine coordinator Capt. Joseph F. Penta was quoted as saying in a news release. “We owe it to ourselves, our family and country to make every effort to sto...

Sputnik V vaccine is in high demand in many countries, says Kremlin Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not comment on the situation in Slovakia saying that he did not know the details MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine is in high demand in the world, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stressed when talking to reporters on Thursday. "There is a consistently high demand [for Sputnik V] in many countries - this is something which is quite obvious," the Kremlin spokesma...

The Latest: Tokyo governor asks for emergency virus measures The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 32 1of32People wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus in Osaka, western Japan, Monday, April 5, 2021. Osaka prefecture issued a special warning Wednesday, April 7, 2021 over the rapid upsurge of the coronavirus cases that has put the areas medical systems on the brink of collapse, requesting the cancellation of the Olympic torch relay on public roads. (Juntar...

3rd health minister fired in virus-battered Czech Republic By KAREL JANICEK Associated Press April 7, 2021 — 9:10am Text size Copy shortlink: PRAGUE — Czech Prime Minster Andrej Babis fired his health minister o...

The Letter n°930 Eric Maurice While the European democratic system is subject to hybrid threats from outside, it is being challenged from within by the current governments in Hungary and Poland and their systemic undermining of checks and balances and guarantees of political alternation. Independent judges and an unfettered press remain the last two bulwarks against power grabs and authoritarian temptations. For the European Union, it is essential to act as a priority to preserve these ch...

Slovakian Drug Institute Unable to Evaluate Sputnik V ‘Due to Lack of Data’ Slovakia, one of Europe’s hardest-hit countries by the pandemic, has bought 200,000 doses of the Russian vaccine but has yet to start administering shots. Federico Parra / AFP Slovakia’s State Institute for Drug Control has told the country’s Health Ministry it has been unable to evaluate the risks and benefits of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine due to a lack of data and inconsistencies in d...

3 Min Read PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Wednesday installed his fourth health minister during the COVID-19 pandemic as a lagging vaccination campaign heightened pressure to use Russia’s Sputnik dose. FILE PHOTO: Czech Republics Prime Minister Andrej Babis attends a news conference in Vienna, Austria March 16, 2021. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger Babis has gone back-and-forth on potentially buying the Sputnik V vaccine prior to European Union approval, an issue other EU nat...

Slovak drug agency says it cannot back Sputnik V vaccine due to lack of data By Robert Muller and Jan Lopatka North Macedonia starts mass inoculation campaign with Russias Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine PRAGUE (Reuters) – Slovakia’s drug watchdog said it has not received sufficient information from the maker of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to be able to decide on its benefits and risks for people. The surprise purchase of 200,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine last month...

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read PRAGUE, March 23 (Reuters) - Slovak President Zuzana Caputova on Tuesday called on Prime Minister Igor Matovic to resign to end a dragging crisis in the ruling four-party coalition and allow the formation a new cabinet under a new leader. “It is inevitable for the prime minister to allow, by his resignation, an agreement among the coalition partners on cabinet reconstruction,” she said in a statement shown live on television. (Reporting by Jan Lopatka and Robert ...

A woman prays alongside a barrier inside the Cologne Cathedral in Germany March 15, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS/Reuters/Thilo Schmuelgen) Oxford, England — When Spanish parliamentarians passed a law allowing euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the run-up to Easter, it was the latest in a program of radical measures that has set the countrys Socialist-led government against its once-powerful Catholic Church. Despite a year of bitter controversies, Spains...