AP
Indonesia on Monday authorized emergency use of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Chinese firm Sinovac, becoming the first country outside China to approve the drug, ahead of a mass inoculation drive this week.
Meanwhile, the Philippines announced its first purchases of coronavirus vaccines, and health officials in Bangladesh confirmed the country’s first delivery of a vaccine for later this month.
Preliminary results of late-stage trials in Indonesia, Brazil and Turkey showed that the vaccine – known as CoronaVac – had efficacy rates of 65.3 percent, 78 percent, and 91.25 percent, respectively, according to Indonesia’s food and drug regulator, BPOM.
“Taking into account the emergency situation and responding to the need to act swiftly to deal with COVID-19, BPOM decided to issue an emergency-use authorization,” agency director Penny Lukito told a press conference.
AP
Indonesia on Monday authorized emergency use of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Chinese firm Sinovac, becoming the first country outside China to approve the drug, ahead of a mass inoculation drive this week.
Meanwhile, the Philippines announced its first purchases of coronavirus vaccines, and health officials in Bangladesh confirmed the country’s first delivery of a vaccine for later this month.
Preliminary results of late-stage trials in Indonesia, Brazil, and Turkey showed that the vaccine – known as CoronaVac – had efficacy rates of 65.3 percent, 78 percent, and 91.25 percent, respectively, according to Indonesia’s food and drug regulator, BPOM.
“Taking into account the emergency situation and responding to the need to act swiftly to deal with COVID-19, BPOM decided to issue an emergency-use authorization,” agency director Penny Lukito told a press conference.
Rustaq Hospital becomes COVID-free
By: Times News Service
Muscat: With zero patients of COVID-19 Rustaq Reference Hospital has achieved great success and feels proud of it after 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Sulaiman Al Meqbali said.
Speaking exclusively to Times of Oman, Dr Sulaiman Al Meqbali, an intensive care consultant at the Rustaq Reference Hospital, said, “We feel joy and happiness as we see the last COVID-19 patient leaving Rustaq Hospital. We have achieved great success and feel proud of that 10 months after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the announcement that the Sultanate reported the discovery of the first two cases infected with the Coronavirus in November 2020, as the last 41-year-old patient suffering from COVID-19 left on Tuesday and is healthy, praise be to God, and he was hospitalized in the Rustaq Reference Hospital in intensive care from December 20, 2020.”
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