The study showed the vaccine is likely to generate a protective immune response to new coronavirus variants carrying the so-called N501Y mutation in the virus’s spike protein.
WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation (SAGE), however, said countries can space out doses depending on vaccine supply constraints and epidemiological settings.
People should get their shots on the recommended schedule, Pfizer said, warning 'there is no data to demonstrate that protection after the first dose is sustained after 21 days.'
The mRNA technology never won approval before the Covid pandemic in any drug or vaccine. But Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó never gave up on her research either.
Shots are rolling out from Pfizer and Moderna, focused at first on healthcare workers around the country who have been battling the virus on the front lines in hospitals.
Dubai locked down the city for about a month earlier this year to halt the spread of the virus. The UAE diagnosed over 195,000 people with Covid since the start of the outbreak.
Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong said first priority will be given to those who are at greatest risk: healthcare workers and front-line personnel, as well as the elderly and vulnerable.
Pending required approvals, Pfizer & BioNTech plan to provide option for clinical trial participants who received the placebo to get Covid vaccine, the company said in a statement.
Committee of advisers voted 17 to 4, with one abstention, that the benefits of the vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE outweigh the risks for use in people ages 16 and older.
Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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