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Bahraini officials said this week that it would be offering Pfizer-BioNTech doses to certain high-risk individuals who have already received two Sinopharm jabs.
China’s great vaccine hope, Sinopharm, sees reputation darkened amid covid spikes in countries using it Adam Taylor, Paul Schemm © Provided by The Washington Post Last year, Bahrain became one of the first countries to throw support behind China’s Sinopharm vaccine, granting it emergency use approval in December — a substantial boost for Beijing’s global ambitions for the vaccine, despite doubts on the part of some scientists over lack of public safety and efficacy data. Now, the Persian Gulf country is the latest to raise doubts about the vaccine’s effectiven...
Bahrain's decision to offer booster shots of a different vaccine is the latest blow to Sinopharm's reputation.
Two Updates from Italy: Affirming the 18App, Supporting Bookstores As Italy’s 18App for young adults gains increased government funding for 2021, France experiments with its own ‘Pass Culture.’ In Rome, March 6. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Gennaro Leonardi Levi: ‘An Effective Strategy’ In coming days, you’ll find us here at Publishing Perspectives bringing you some of the world publishing industry news you may have missed during the big collision of publishing events that were all scheduled in the latter part of May. As these played out, two interesting steps forward were high...
Boyko Borisov at an EU summit in Brussels - Credit: POOL/AFP via Getty Images There are few European leaders more colourful and controversial than Bulgaria's Boyko Borisov. Now, demographic forces unleashed by the pandemic could topple him and offer a new start for the EU's poorest nation The beginning of the end for Bulgaria’s bruising former bodyguard turned prime minister Boyko Borisov came last summer, when a photo surfaced showing him in bed with a handgun on his side table and bundles of 500 euro notes stuffed in a half-open drawer. Despite Borisov’s claims that it was doctored, th...