Top news of the week: 09.02.2021.
Coronavirus
Pfizer applies to register COVID-19 vaccine in Brazil
Pfizer Inc has applied for full regulatory approval in Brazil of its COVID-19 vaccine developed with BioNTech Se, Brazilian health regulator Anvisa said on Saturday.
CanSinoBIO's COVID-19 vaccine 65.7% effective in global trials, Pakistan official says
CanSino Biologics Inc's (CanSinoBIO) COVID-19 vaccine showed 65.7% efficacy in preventing symptomatic cases and a 90.98% success rate in stopping severe disease in an interim analysis of ...
Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine remained active against S.Africa variant, effect reduced - lab study
Two COVID-19 vaccines from Chinese companies including Sinopharm triggered immunity against a highly transmissible coronavirus variant first found in South Africa, but their effect appeared ...
World faces around 4,000 COVID-19 variants as Britain explores mixed vaccine shots
The world faces around 4,000 variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, prompting a race to improve vaccines, Britain said on Thursday, as researchers began to explore mixing doses of the ...
Peruvian president to receive China-developed COVID-19 vaccine
A staff member takes out samples of the COVID-19 inactivated vaccine at a vaccine production plant of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) in Beijing, capital of China, …
China, WHO experts complete COVID-19 origin-tracing research in Wuhan
Aerial photo taken on Jan. 26, 2020 shows the Yellow Crane Tower and the Yangtze River Bridge during a lockdown to contain the epidemic in Wuhan, central China's Hubei …
Huanan seafood market may not be site of earliest COVID-19 outbreak: WHO-China team
Aerial photo taken on Aug. 7, 2020 shows the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu) WUHAN, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Wuhan's Huanan seafood …
China to donate 100,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Congo Republic
China will donate 100,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Congo Republic and forgive $13 million in public debt, its ambassador to the Central African country said on Thursday.