Clinical trials

In an interview, which was broadcast on his Twitter account, Maduro stated that no serious complications were noticed after the vaccination with "Sputnik V" vaccine, which is registered in Venezuela, TASS reports.
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said in December last year that an agreement had been reached with Russia on supplying Venezuela with the "Sputnik V" vaccine.

Referring to the data from the "Our World in Data" page, the portal adds that Croatia is at the bottom.
By Monday, 58.077 people had been vaccinated in Croatia, according to a government tweet, while in Serbia the number was almost ten times higher.

The European Union put on a brave face on Feb. 1, defending its troubled vaccination programme and insisting that renewed pledges of vaccine deliveries would make up for a production shortfall.

About 1,500 of the initial volunteers in a late-stage clinical trial of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine were given the wrong dose, but weren't informed that a mistake had been made after the blunder was discovered, documents obtained by Reuters show.

The European Commission will continue discussions with AstraZeneca with the purpose of receiving more doses of its Covid-19 vaccine than the company has so far pledged in the first quarter of the year, a spokesman said on Monday.

This morning, 17,550 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine arrived in Bulgaria. The shipment will be distributed to all vaccination sites accross the country. This is the next in a planned series vaccine shipment received in our country. The last one arrived last week and contained 14,000 doses.

The number of people who have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine has crossed the 2-million mark in Turkey.

The country, with a population of 83 million, rolled out its inoculation program on Jan. 17. Mostly health care professionals and the elderly have been administered the jab which Turkey secured from the Chinese firm Sinovac.

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed to supply 9 million additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the European Union during the first quarter, the bloc's executive arm said on Jan. 31.

The European Union on Jan. 29 backtracked on a threat to restrict exports of coronavirus shots to Northern Ireland in its growing row with Britain, as the WHO warned against "vaccine nationalism".

The European Commission gave approval on Friday for the use of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca, the final step to allowing Europe to use it across the continent.

"I expect the company to deliver the 400 million doses as agreed," Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission wrote on Twitter.

[Reuters]