Vaccines
Ministry proposes zero VAT for Covid-19-related services, products
Ljubljana – The Health Ministry has proposed that the seventh stimulus package include a provision on remission of value added tax (VAT) for Covid-19 vaccine, tests, testing and vaccination kits, and all related medical services, the ministry said on it web site on Wednesday.
Turkey aims to vaccinate 50 million people by summer: Minister
Turkey targets to buy and bring 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines and have 50 million residents out of the 83 million population inoculated by the summer, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said Dec. 8.
Rich Countries Overstocking Vaccines, Poor Ones Lagging Far Behind
There are fears that poorer countries could be left behind as richer nations "hoard" more doses of coronavirus vaccine than they need.
Wealthy countries have amassed a big enough stock of vaccine doses to immunize their people nearly three times over by the end of next year, assuming the vaccines in clinical trials are all approved for use.
Scientist: The Vaccine Will Save Many Lives, but We Have to Follow The Measures for 1-2 Years
"All experts in the world say emphatically: The vaccine is a great discovery, it will save many lives. However until we clarify for 1-2 years the nature of this immunity that it creates, we must continue to follow the measures - wearing masks, hand washing, avoiding social contact." This is the opinion of Acad. Petrunov from the Bulgarian Academy of Science.
Greek expert dismisses concerns over Pfizer vaccine
London School of Economics Health Policy Professor Elias Mosialos, who is also Greece's international coronavirus spokesperson, has dismissed concerns over the safety of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine.
Six people - four in the placebo group and two in the vaccine group - died during clinical trials, but none of these deaths has been linked to the vaccine, Mosialos said in a Facebook post.
Queen Elizabeth and Husband Are First in UK to Be Vaccinated against Coronavirus
After Russia, corona vaccination campaign will be started in Britain from today also. After the public vaccination campaign of the corona vaccine, Sputnik-V started in Russia on Saturday, now in Britain, the vaccination campaign will start from today.
MEP Andrey Kovachev: Transparent Vaccine Information Campaign Is Must
There is still inertia and lack a uniform European health policy, and the European Union has only added value to coordinate Member States' policies, MEP Andrey Kovachev said on the Bulgarian National Radio.
The first vaccine received by a 90-year-old British woman
Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old grandmother, on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer NSE -0.33 % COVID-19 vaccine shot outside of a trial as Britain began vaccinating its population.
Great Britain is the first Western country to start vaccinating its general population today.
Covid-19: First Person Receives Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine in UK
A 90-year-old woman has become the first person to be given a Covid jab as part of the mass vaccination programme being rolled out across the UK.
Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 next week, said it was the "best early birthday present".
'Turning point': UK giving 1st doses of COVID-19 vaccine
British health authorities rolled out the first doses of a widely tested and independently reviewed COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 8, starting a global immunization program that is expected to gain momentum as more serums win approval.