Malaysia on March 2 approved urgent conditional approval of the Covid-19 AstraZeneca vaccine of Great Britain and Sinovac China. The country started the February 24 vaccination series, using the US Pfizer vaccine. The immunization program comes as the government is trying to control subsequent outbreaks, an attempt to revive the economy that has suffered its […]
Austrian Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz has criticized the European Pharmaceutical Authority (EMA) for being “too slow” to approve the Covid-19 vaccine. On March 1, Mr. Kurz said that the EU’s general policy of purchasing and licensing the vaccine is in principle. However, to defeat Covid-19 and develop future vaccine products, he said, it should not […]
Filipinos and frontline doctors are skeptical of Covid-19 vaccine from Sinovac (China). Since March 1, the Philippines started to vaccinate people in the context of the number of cases increasing rapidly. Images of Gerardo Legazpi, director of the Philippine General Hospital, the country’s first-line medical facility, received the first dose out of the 600,000 doses […]
AmericaLanguage barriers, limited access to technology and inaccurate information, a part of immigrants have difficulty in vaccinating Covid-19. Flora Pérez, 58, tried to register her dad’s Covid-19 vaccination schedule for weeks but failed. “It’s really, very difficult, there are no injection sites that have space for my dad. He is 82 years old,” said Pérez […]
American scientists believe that a single dose of the vaccine will generate large amounts of antibodies in people who have been infected with nCoV, enough to kill the variant virus. With nearly 112 million cases of Covid-19 in the world, scientists always question whether or not to vaccinate those who have recovered. Recent studies have […]
3 cold stores minus 86 degrees Celsius of VNVC in Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Hanoi can store 3 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine at a time. The representative of VNVC vaccination center system said that, in January, VNVC was licensed by the Ministry of Health to deploy 3 storage facilities and systems for […]
Experts believe that the Philippines has been slow in the response to the pandemic and has encountered many difficulties in implementing vaccination. When the Philippines recorded its first Covid-19 death on February 1 of last year, President Rodrigo Duterte assured: “Everything is fine, without fear of Covid-19”. At that time, the 44-year-old patient, from Wuhan, […]
Asian countries are facing opportunities but also many challenges with the hope of ending Covid-19 with vaccine. The vaccination problem is not only a scientific issue but also logistics, politics, society and geography. The bigger problem is that if the epidemic had time to spread, new strains of virus that were resistant to the vaccine […]
According to HCDC, the strategy of rapid testing once the source of infection is identified is the “key” to help control the infection chain at Tan Son Nhat airport. Center for Disease Control Ho Chi Minh City (HCDC) has drawn the above, when summarizing 10 days of stamping out the epidemic, since the city’s active […]
The Japanese government has officially approved the Covid-19 vaccine made by the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer. On February 14, Japan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare said it had licensed the use of the Pfizer vaccine after a decision was made by a panel of experts on Feb. 12, based on its effectiveness and safety assessment […]