Vaccines

Turkish scientists working on COVID-19 vaccine

A Turkish university has started to work on developing a native DNA vaccine for coronavirus, the institution's head said on March 27.

In a statement, Necdet Budak, head of Ege University in İzmir province, said that since a licensed vaccine for COVID-19 was not yet available, many countries initiated research on the subject.

US Launches First Clinical Tests on New Coronavirus Vaccine

The first participant in a clinical test for a vaccine against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose on Monday, according to a government official, AP National Institutes of Health funded the trial, which is being conducted at the Seattle Health Research Institute in Washington, DC.

Flu death toll reaches 52

The number of persons that have died until now because of the flu has reached 52, the National Centre for Surveillance and Control of Communicable Diseases with the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) has announced on Wednesday. The last person to die of the flu is a woman aged 83 of Dambovita county, who was confirmed with type-A influenza.

The US Promised that the Coronavirus Vaccine will be Ready for Testing in 90 Days

The United States has officially announced the deadline for the production of a coronavirus vaccine, RIA Novosti reported.

In the United States, a coronavirus vaccine can be tested in a month and a half, and it will be ready for mass use in a year and a half, said Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institutes of Health.

Coronavirus: China has Developed a Vaccine that Shows Immunity

Chinese authorities are confident that the epidemic of the new coronavirus will be defeated, and normal life in most parts of the country will be restored by the end of February. "There is confidence in China that soon we will finally defeat this outbreak," Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui said.

Push for flu vaccinations

Amid a spike in serious flu cases, Greece's National Health Organization (EODY) has underlined the importance of people getting the flu vaccine.

The warning comes despite the revelation that, of the serious flu cases recorded to date, one in three had been vaccinated. The death toll from the flu virus since October rose to 38 last week, according to EODY.

The United States is Developing a Vaccine against the Deadly Coronavirus

US health authorities have begun developing a vaccine against the deadly virus, which originated in China and has claimed more than a hundred lives so far, AFP reports.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) official spokesman Anthony Fauci told reporters: "We have already started at the NIH and with many of our collaborators on the developing of a vaccine," 

Health Ministry prepares action plan to grow trust in vaccination against HPV

The Ministry of Health organised a working seminar on Thursday, attended by Romanian and foreign specialists, patients, family doctors, to prepare an action plan to inform and educate the population regarding the vaccine against HPV, but also about vaccination in general, shows a press release sent AGERPRES.

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