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Channel 12 reports that one million vaccines from the US biotech company Moderna will arrive in Israel next week, rather than in March as had previously been agreed.
The report is not immediately confirmed by the Health Ministry.
If confirmed, however, it could make up for a shortfall predicted by the ministry in January, before new batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech shot arrive.
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A court in Jordan sentenced five leaders of the national teachers’ syndicate to a year in prison over recent protests demanding a salary increase, a lawyer for the teachers says.
Bassam Fraihat says the court also ordered that the syndicate be dissolved. He says the five, who face an array of charges, including incitement to hatred and unlawful gatherings, are appealing the verdict and were released on bail.
The five were among 13 members of the Teachers Association council who were arrested in July after threatening to stage new protests over a long-running salary dispute. The arrests set off protests in the capital, Amman, in which anti-riot police clashed with protesters and beat several people with clubs, including an Associated Press reporter. Dozens of protesters were arrested.
A Worker Accused of Spoiling More Than 500 Vaccine Doses Is Arrested
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Senator David Perdue quarantines as a critical runoff in Georgia nears. The U.S. reaches 20 million cases. And China approved its first Covid-19 vaccine.
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The Moderna vaccine can be distributed more widely because it can be stored at normal freezer temperatures.Credit.Cooper Neill for The New York Times
A pharmacist at a Wisconsin hospital has been arrested and accused of intentionally removing more than 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine from refrigeration last week, knowing that the vaccines would be rendered useless and that the people receiving them would think they were protected against the virus when they were not, the police department in Grafton, Wisconsin, said Thursday.
Chinese health regulators have given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by a state-owned company.
The two-dose Covid-19 vaccine is the first approved for general use in China. The approval comes as the country has started to vaccinate 50 million people before the Lunar New Year holiday in February.
Chen Shifei, the deputy commissioner of China’s National Medical Products Administration, told a news conference that conditional approval means research is still ongoing and the company will be required to submit follow-up data as well as reports of any adverse effects after the vaccine is sold on the market.
The vaccine was developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products, a subsidiary of state-owned conglomerate Sinopharm. The company announced that preliminary data from last-stage trials had shown it to be 79.3% effective.
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