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EU adds 100 million doses to Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine order The European Union has exercised its option, under a previous agreement, to order 100 million additional doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Comirnaty. This brings the number of doses ordered by the bloc up to 600 million, and is the largest cumulative supply agreement that Pfizer/BioNTech have made globally. A total of 600 million doses represents enough to cover 300 million people: aroun...

The Latest: EU to purchase 100 million more vaccine doses The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 9 1of9A pupil takes a Corona antigen rapid test before the start of lessons at the Katharina Henoth Comprehensive School in Cologne, Germany, Monday, April 19, 2021. After a week of lessons at home, many children and adolescents in North Rhine-Westphalia have been able to return to their schools for face-to-face lessons since Monday. (Marius Becker/dpa via AP)Marius Becker/APShow More...

The Latest: Vt. ski resorts winter pandemic loss at $100M The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 18 1of18A boy wearing a face mask looks through the window of a train at a railway station in Gauhati, India, Monday, April 19, 2021. India now has reported more than 15 million coronavirus infections, a total second only to the United States.Anupam Nath/APShow MoreShow Less 2of18A funeral worker asks for his photo to be taken through one of the used coffins he is moving following cre...

EU secures additional 100m Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine doses Total number of doses to be delivered to the 27 EU members in 2021 reaches 600 million about 3 hours ago Updated: about an hour ago A member of the medical staff prepares a dose of Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in Toulon, southern France. Photograph: Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images   The European Union has exercised an option to acquire an additional 100 million doses of BioNTech and Pfizer’s Co...

Sinovac vaccine found 85% effective in preventing hospitalisations and 80% effective in preventing deaths in Chile PHOTO: REUTERS Another 2 million doses of Chinese coronavirus vaccine are expected to arrive in Pakistan by next week. Express News while quoting sources reported that the new batch will also include CoronaVac vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac. CoronaVac vaccine was 85% effective in preventing hospitalisations and 80% effective in preventing deaths, the Chile...

Yale COVID vaccine trials taking on patients as young as 6 months old FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Onyema Ogbuagu, and infectious diseases specialist for Yale New Haven Health and principal investigator at the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine trial, receives his vaccination from pharmacist Natasha Stroedecke.Kristin Hynes / Yale New Haven HealthShow MoreShow Less 2of3 3of3 NEW HAVEN — Clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines soon will be extending to i...

France, whose slow rollout seemed to symbolise the continent’s problems a few months ago, is now powering ahead. Its target of 10 million vaccinations by April 15th was reached a week early, and it is set to double that total within a month. Germany injected a record 720,000 doses on Thursday, and expects to give 3.5 million shots a week by early next month. The daily vaccination rates in Italy and the Netherlands are now comparable, on a per capita basis, to that of the US, which is winni...

Coronavirus: Hong Kong hospitals can handle BioNTech jabs once centres close in September, official says; city expecting 17 new Covid-19 cases Hospitals and other locations can still inoculate, though on a smaller scale, civil service chief Patrick Nip says in addressing concerns among some residents that German-made doses could run out before they can consult doctors Eleven of the coronavirus cases expected on Friday were imported, while the six local infections – all of which were...