Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin, the co-founders of BioNTech, have been named the recipients of this year's Aydın Doğan Award for their invaluable work on biotechnology culminating the development of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Romania will donate 100,800 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Ukraine and 50,400 doses to Serbia, senior official with the Romanian Health Ministry Monica Althamer announced on Wednesday at the end of a government meeting. "A government decision on humanitarian aid, COVID-19 vaccine doses, to Ukraine and Serbia has been approved today.

The "acute" phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey is nearing an end, the health minister announced on June 15. 


In a statement, Fahrettin Koca said he held a virtual meeting with Hans Kluge, the WHO regional director for Europe.

President Joe Biden will on June 10 announce a "historic" U.S. donation of half a billion COVID-19 vaccine doses for 92 poorer countries, the White House said.

A Wisconsin hospital pharmacist was sentenced to 36 months in prison Monday after he tampered with hundreds of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines by intentionally disrupting cold storage requirements, according to the Department of Justice.

A new batch of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine consisting of 964,080 doses is being brought to Romania today, according to the National COVID-19 Vaccination Coordination Committee (CNCAV). The vaccines will be delivered by air and will reach the airports of Otopeni, Cluj-Napoca and Timisoara. Shipment to storage centres is provided by the manufacturing company, including by land.

The U.S. will give Taiwan 750,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, part of President Joe Biden's move to share tens of millions of jabs globally, three American senators said on June 6, after the self-ruled island complained that China is hindering its efforts to secure vaccines as it battles an outbreak.

A study by France's Pasteur Institute found people who had received two doses of Pfizer saw a three-fold reduction in their antibodies against the B. 1.617 variant.

The Pfizer vaccine is slightly less effective but appears to still protect against the more transmissible Covid-19 variant first identified in India, according to a study by France's Pasteur Institute.

Turkey will receive 12 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer/BioNTech by the end of next week, the country's health minister has said.

Fahrettin Koca said he spoke with Uğur Şahin, the co-founder of CEO of Germany-based BioNTech, earlier this week and that Şahin confirmed that they obtained export permission for 12 million doses of the injection.

Ljubljana – The head of the national advisory group for Covid-19 vaccination, Bojana Beović, has said that following the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for children aged 12 or more, the group will recommend vaccinating children, especially children suffering from chronic diseases.