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Russians save EU: Prompt response to "the offer not to be missed"
An offer that cannot be missed came from Moscow - the company behind the Russian vaccine against coronavirus offered the European Union to send them 100.000.000 doses of "Sputnik V" vaccine during the second quarter of this year.
European regulator: No new vaccine side effects
The European Medicines Agency says no new side effects linked to the coronavirus vaccine made by BioNTech and Pfizer - and used in Greece right now - were identified in the regulator's first safety update on Covid-19 vaccines.
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Orban was waiting to see how the vaccination would go in Serbia
He added that the country was waiting to see how the mass vaccination with the Chinese vaccine in Serbia would go.
In early January, Serbia received one million doses of the Chinese vaccine Sinopharm, and thus became the first European country to start a mass vaccination program with that vaccine, Reuters reports.
New Coronavirus Vaccine, Novavax, Shown to Be Nearly 90 Percent Effective
Another vaccine against Covid, trialled in the UK and bought by the government, has been shown to be nearly 90% effective and work against the UK and South African variants of the virus.
"Sputnik V" has arrived PHOTO
New 40.000 doses were delivered this morning at around six o'clock, and the plane with vaccines was welcomed by the Minister of Innovation Nenad Popovi at the Belgrade "Nikola Tesla" airport.
With the new 40.000 doses, 20.000 people will be able to be vaccinated.
Prime Minister Ana Brnabi announced yesterday that new quantities of the "Pfizer" vaccine will arrive on Monday.
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Novavax COVID-19 vaccine works, but less so against variants
Novavax Inc. said Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine appears 89% effective based on early findings from a British study and that it also seems to work- though not as well- against new mutated versions of the virus circulating in that country and South Africa.
Turkey receives second shipment from second batch of Sinovac vaccines
The second shipment of the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines ordered from China arrived early on Jan. 29 in Turkey.
A Turkish Airlines plane that departed from Beijing landed at Istanbul Airport at 6.10 a.m. local time (0310GMT) carrying the 3.5 million doses of the vaccine.
A total of 10 million doses of the vaccine were imported in the second batch.
EU now advises 3-week interval between Pfizer vaccine doses
The European Medicines Agency is now recommending that a second dose of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine be given three weeks after the first, as many countries consider ways to stretch scarce supplies of shots.
Number of people vaccinated for COVID exceeds 1.5 mln in Turkey
The number of people in Turkey who have received their first dose of a vaccine against the novel coronavirus crossed the 1.5 million mark as of Janç 27, according to official figures.
In week two of Turkey's mass vaccination campaign, in which it is administering CoronaVac jabs purchased from Chinese company SinoVac, immunization efforts are running smoothly, officials say.
Romania signs order for 9m CureVac vaccine doses
Romania's Ministry of Health has recently signed an order for an additional 9 million COVID-19 vaccine doses with the German company CureVac, Health Minister Vlad Voiculescu announced on Wednesday. "The prime minister has already expressed his readiness to allocate the necessary resources to procure all the vaccines that are available.
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