Vaccine controversies

The pharma giant AstraZeneca has requested that the European authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine be pulled, according to the EU medicines regulator.

In an update on the European Medicines Agency's website Wednesday, the regulator said that the approval for AstraZeneca's Vaxzevria had been withdrawn "at the request of the marketing authorization holder."

The number of coronavirus vaccinations in the world has exceeded 8 billion. More than half of them (4.16 billion) are in three countries - China (2.5 billion), India (1.2 billion) and the United States (0.46 billion).

The World Health Organization has no data that there is a reduction in effectiveness of existing coronavirus vaccines following the emergence of the Omicron variant.

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Russians are travelling to Croatia to get EU-approved vaccines since at home they can only get the Russian Sputnik vaccine, which the EU and many other countries don't recognize,

According to a report by the People’s Vaccine Alliance, In contrast, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson sell their vaccines at a cost price.

The drugmaker stands to make a sizeable profit from its vaccine breakthrough

“The big difference from the other waves is that we now have the vaccine”

Namely, she is the first person to receive the "Sputnik" vaccine produced at the Torlak Institute. As she says, she feels good.
"I'm fine. I was at the clinic until half past 11, I examined 30 people... I didn't have any problems. I believed that there wouldn't be any," said Dr Grujicic.

In the EU, more than 75 percent of adult citizens are already fully vaccinated against covid. This was announced by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.

She added that to date, the EU has exported more than a billion doses of vaccine to more than 150 countries around the world. The EU is the largest exporter of vaccines, the EC president said.

Foreign travellers will need to prove that they have received both doses of the vaccine before traveling to the United States