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Berlin Mayor Michael Müller has criticised people refusing to have the Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccine. Photo: IMAGO / Francesco Rossi
Mayor demands revised vaccine priorities following AstraZeneca row, legal case against pop-up bike lanes dropped
Tagesspiegel in an interview yesterday. The comments come after numerous reports from across Germany that significant numbers of people who are entitled to the UK-developed shot are refusing to have it due to unfounded fears about efficacy and side effects. I would get vaccinated with AstraZeneca immediately, Müller said, and proposed that the unwanted jabs could be offered to teachers or police officers instead. The AstraZeneca vaccine is currently being offered to medical staff and care workers under the age of 65.
Published February 14, 2021, 9:40 AM
The Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) and the Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) have launched the Philippine Groundwater Outlook (PhiGO) website, which seeks to mitigate the adverse impacts of flood and drought in selected areas in the country.
This was disclosed by DOST Secretary Fortunato de la Peña in his weekly report on Friday, Feb. 12.
According to him, researchers from the AdMU, with the support from DOST-PCIEERD, have developed a decision support system in monitoring the groundwater quality and quantity in nine highly urbanized water critical cities in the country.
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IosBio, based in Sussex, has engineered a vaccine in oral form and carried out initial trials on monkeys. It is said to have produced “highly effective” results.
Mr Zahawi told Times Radio: There are technologies with pills and others being developed around the world and we will continue to look at those. But we re making sure the UK will always have the capability and capacity to manufacture the variant vaccines that will deal with any variant virus.”
More than 12 million people in the UK have had their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
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