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First, it was the race to become the first to produce Covid-19 vaccine. Now, it’s the race to become the first to vaccinate the entire population. As China, the world’s second largest economy, tries to catch up to Europe and the United States, a new record is being broken again. After hitting 15 million people, […]
... written on May 30 2021Muhyiddin Yassin, the power-hungry, but clueless and incompetent prime minister has finally declared a full lockdown effective June 1 to 14. The 2-week nationwide lockdown decision comes on Friday evening (May 28) after the country reported its fourth consecutive day of record infections – a whopping 8,290 Coronavirus new cases and 61 deaths. The […]
... written on May 28 2021China only managed to vaccinate more than 15 million people in the third week of January this year, even though it had actually started giving emergency vaccinations as early as July, 2020. The country officially kicked off of its mass vaccinations on 15 December, 2020, targeting high-risk groups such as healthcare workers and people who […]
... written on May 21 2021Ministers or politicians who think the worst is over and this year will be the end of Coronavirus pandemic are either naive or clueless about science. The worst part is when some high-ranking officials of Ministry of Health help an incompetent government to hide and manipulate data of Covid-19 cases for selfish political or personal […]
... written on Apr 30 2021American pharmaceutical Pfizer and the German biotech company BioNTech have announced on 1 April, 2021 that its Coronavirus vaccine was 91.3% effective against Covid-19. The topline results were derived from analysis of 927 confirmed symptomatic cases of the virus observed in their pivotal Phase 3 study through March 13, 2021. That’s slightly lower than […]
... written on Apr 12 2021Close to a dozen European countries have suspended the Coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford following reports of severe blood clots in some people who have received doses. Yesterday (Thursday, 11 March), Denmark, Norway and Iceland announced they will temporarily stop using the shot as a precaution. While the European […]
... written on Mar 12 2021In the seven-emirate United Arab Emirates (UAE), if you have been in other Emirates and wish to travel to Abu Dhabi, you must present at the Abu Dhabi border your negative Covid‑19 PCR test results issued within 48 hours. In essence, residents who live in Abu Dhabi but travel daily to Dubai to work must […]
... written on Feb 27 2021Moderna’s vaccine has become the second approved Coronavirus vaccine after Pfizer-BioNTech. The green light was granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Thursday (Dec 17). The 20-0 with one abstention decision, delivered by the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, came exactly 1-week after Pfizer got its approval. […]
... written on Dec 18 2020On Friday, as expected, the U.S. FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and German partner BioNTech. The authorization, however, was plagued with news that White House Chief-of-Staff, Mark Meadows, told the FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn to authorize Pfizer’s Coronavirus vaccine on Friday itself – or prepares to resign. […]
... written on Dec 14 2020Is vaccine developed by Pfizer and German partner BioNTech safe and effective as claimed? According to the U.S. FDA (Food and Drug Administration), their analysis found the vaccine to be 95% effective more than 7 days after the second dose. Between 2 to 7 days after the second dose, the efficacy is 90.5%. The first […]
... written on Dec 10 2020
