Over 1.98 billion coronavirus vaccine shots have so far been administered worldwide, figures compiled by Our World in Data, a tracking website, showed on Wednesday
Vaccines stop variants but overseas travel still not safe
Variants are not in themselves dangerous, but they can be if they change the behaviour of the virus H. J. I. / AFP
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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Vaccines stop variants but overseas travel still not safe
The so-called Indian variant, which might be more transmissible, has now been identified in at least 26 of the 53 countries in the WHO Europe region
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Progress against the coronavirus pandemic remains fragile and international travel should be avoided, a World Health Organization director warned Thursday, while stressing that authorised vaccines work against variants of concern.
US pharmaceutical firm Moderna said Thursday it expects to increase global production of its cutting-edge Covid vaccine to up to three billion doses in 2022.
Palestinians receive first batch of UN vaccines
The Palestinian Authority said that vaccination would begin on Sunday, primarily for those aged over 75, cancer patients and medical personnel H. J. I. / AFP
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COVAX PROGRAMME
Palestinians receive first batch of UN vaccines
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Palestinians on Wednesday received their first delivery of coronavirus vaccines via the United Nations Covax programme supporting poorer areas, an AFP journalist in the occupied West Bank reported.
Earlier, some 60,000 doses of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines allocated to the Palestinians under the Covax scheme arrived at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, according to an Israeli security source.