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However, the company is already considering the time after this pandemic and is preparing a huge investment in Singapore.

Ljubljana – The Health Ministry and the National Institute for Public Health (NIJZ) told the STA on Wednesday that the vaccination of children and adolescents in Slovenia would start when the European Medicines Agency (EMA) gives its approval.

US FDA expanded the emergency use authorization for Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine including people ages 12 to 15.

Coordinator of Romania's COVID-19 vaccination campaign Valeriu Gheorghita said on Tuesday that there is a clear prospect of immunising this summer 12-15-year-olds in the country using the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine.

Turkey expects to receive the first shipment of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine during May, said the country's health minister on April 30.

"So far, Turkey administered nearly 23 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, and we currently have 6 million doses still on hand," said Fahrettin Koca at a news conference in the Mediterranean Antalya province.

The streets are crowded, the shopping centres busy and the traffic heavy.

Some rush to the main bus terminal to get out of Istanbul, while others are trying to stockpile alcohol amid news of a "booze ban".

This is the mood as Turkey prepares to enter its first full lockdown of the pandemic, to curb a surge in infections and deaths.

Israeli Health Ministry said on Sunday it is examining a small number of cases of heart inflammation in people who had received Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, though it has not yet drawn any conclusions.

Pfizer said it has not observed a higher rate of the condition than would normally be expected in the general population.

People aged between 55 and 59 are flocking to hospitals to have their first dose of the vaccine against COVID-19, after the government this week widened the scope of the inoculation drive to cover this age group.

Secretary of State in the Health Ministry Andrei Baciu said on Tuesday that Romania ranks 4th in the European Union in terms of immunization with two doses of anti-COVID vaccine and 17th in the world.

Today, 62,010 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and 50,400 doses of AstraZeneca arrived in Bulgaria, reported the Ministry of Health press office.

Moderna drugs manufacture supplied38,400 doses of their vaccine yesterday, the press office added.

The delivered jabs were immediately distributed among regional health inspectorates across the country.