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Vaccine sharing programme hit by delivery delays for June and July Osama Mohammad, an Iraqi nurse who volunteered to take care of Covid-19 patients in their homes, provides medical care to Majeed Allaw (68), a Covid-19 patient at his house in Baghdad, Iraq. EPA Health workers treat Covid-19 patients at the hospital of the Mexican Institute of Social Security in Mexico City. AFP A lab technician works at the Amazon Covid-19 testing lab in Worsley, Britain. Reuters A health worker takes a swab sample from a child for a Covid-19 test at a railway station in New Delhi. AFP A woman takes a photo a...

Two doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine may be around 85% to 90% effective against symptomatic disease, Public Health England (PHE) said on Thursday, while cautioning that it did not yet have enough data to be conclusive. Britain has suffered one of the worst death tolls globally from the pandemic, but

Africa's COVID-19 cases reach almost 4.7 million By Edith Mutethya in Nairobi, Kenya | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-05-19 11:26   A man receives the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine under the COVAX scheme against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Eka Kotebe General Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 13, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 4,692, 520 on Monday, while deaths hit 126,447, according to data from the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Africa's cases account for 3 percent of...

Article content In accordance with Quebec’s declining vaccination age limits, the Montreal Canadiens are getting their jabs starting this week. Fans are hoping it’s neither Pfizer nor Moderna but “Score.” I’ve actually thought for a while now that we should have put blue-line workers — i.e., NHL players — closer to the front of the queue. Not ahead of frontline workers, especially in health care. But not far down the priority list. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or William Watson: Should Canada pay people to get vaccinated? Maybe B...

Biden administration will support lifting vaccine patent protections Paul Schemm, Lateshia Beachum, Paulina Villegas © Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images/Bloomberg News Katherine Tai, United States trade representative. The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will support waiving intellectual property protections for coronavirus vaccines and will move forward with international negotiations to do so, arguing that the global health crisis calls for extraordinary measures. “The Administration believes strongly in intellectual property protections, but in service ...