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Health Canada expects first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved next month

Nova Scotia and New Brunswick premiers say they expect provincial populations will play a part in the decision making. He also named the Canadian army's Major...

B.C. adds 887 cases, 13 deaths

There have been 13 new COVID-19 related deaths, for a total of 384 deaths in British Columbia since the beginning of the pandemic. With the highest number of ...

Ontario won't be seeing the COVID-19 vaccines in early 2021

The United States, Britain and Germany have said their first recipients could start to receive vaccinations as early as December, but Canadians aren't likely to...

Scientists defend AstraZeneca and Oxford over vaccine questions

In one group, 2741 participants received a half-dose of the vaccine and then a full dose at least a month later. Soriot said he didn't expect the additional t...

England readies for post-lockdown tiers

Hotels and indoor entertainment venues must also close in these areas. Coronavirus infections across the United Kingdom appear to have dropped significantly...

Premier pauses NL participation in Atlantic Bubble for two weeks

The province now has 23 active cases. I respect the decision of the provinces of Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador to take further steps at thi...

Mexico reports 10 335 new COVID 19 cases

COVID-19-related deaths in Marshall County jumped by almost 50 percent Tuesday as the county remained in the highest risk designation on West Virginia's daily C...

In Brazil, Pfizer begins process to register Covid-19 vaccine

Explaining that there is no Covid-19 vaccine approved for mass use and publicly available yet, the multinational clarified, "Once approved, Pfizer will supply t...

Joe Biden promises 'diplomacy first' after Trump era

The GSA determination that Biden is the apparent victor gives him access to classified briefings on national security threats and will allow his aides to coordi...

Loeffler Quarantines After Inconclusive COVID-19 Tests And Indoor Campaign Events

President Trump 's Attorney has suggested to voters in Georgia , where two Senate runoff elections are due to take place in January, they should hold off vot...

941 new cases, 10 deaths

A total of 28,348 people have tested positive since the pandemic began in B.C., 19,605 have fully recovered. "This virus doesn't pause, though, when we're exhau...

COVID-19 rapid tests deployed to some Ontario hospitals, long-term care homes

We've already deployed these tests in 26 long-term care homes and 27 retirement homes. "We will also use these tests to conduct early investigations into outbre...

County COVID cases continue to increase

The numbers decreased slightly from Monday's 2,259 cases and caused the rolling weekly average to settle at a peak of 2,672 cases a day. "Of those, 1,203 patien...

Restaurants Fight LA's Coronavirus Orders In Court

Prior to the announcement, LA County officials had warned that these restrictions could come if the five-day average of new cases in the county totaled above 4,...

Covid-19: Oxford University vaccine is highly effective

Three vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech, Sputnik and Moderna - have already reported good preliminary data from phase three trials, with one suggesting 94 per cent o...

EU reaches deal with Moderna on COVID-19 vaccine supply

After Pfizer submitted its application for a COVID-19 vaccine to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week, IL public health officials have continued ...

Six months immunity following COVID-19 infection, say researchers

Fortunately, only one member of the family needed hospitalization, 57-year-old Enriqueta Aragonez, who was first admitted with pneumonia, then released and re...

Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine trial results 'definitely' before Christmas: investigator

This is in addition to the 1 billion syringes that need to be transported by sea-freight. United States admiral's undercover visit to Taiwan certain to annoy Ch...

AstraZeneca : must prove claim to cheapest COVID-19 vaccine - MSF

Meanwhile, as Brunei will be hosting the ASEAN Summit next year, Dato Seri Setia Dr Haji Mohd Isham said it is very unlikely the nation can host in-person meeti...

More South Dakotans Choosing Not to Travel This Thanksgiving

Last week, the CDC advised Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving, and instead opt for virtual Thanksgiving gatherings, or limit celebrations to those withi...

Maximum 4K fans to be allowed into England stadiums starting December

Mr Johnson said: "It seems that nearly every week there is some new scientific breakthrough to help us beat Covid, last week it was good news from Pfizer-BioN...

Coronavirus Ireland: no further deaths and 252 new cases

The national 14-day incidence rate has now fallen to 109 per 100,000 population, with Donegal still reporting the highest incidence rate in the country at 2...

AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine is 70% effective on average, data shows

Another notable advantage of the vaccine is that it can be stored under normal fridge conditions, rather than in freezers, and therefore distributed via exist...

Governor Introduces COVID-19 County Alert System

North Carolina health secretary Mandy Cohen said hospitals are overwhelmed, "especially in the Trinity area". On Nov. 17, the N.C. Department of Health and ...

AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine can be 90% effective, results show

AstraZeneca's proposed vaccine produced less effective results when compared with others produced by rivals BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna , which were shown to b...

AZ's COVID-19 vaccine proves promising in elderly participants, new data shows

Both low and standard doses of the vaccine triggered responses in both parts of the immune system. Reporting on data from a Phase II trial of the ChAdOx1 nCov-2...

Govt taking steps to ensure child rights protection: PM

Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari, in her message, stated that turning iconic buildings blue in Pakistan demonstrates "our solidarity with childre...

Coronavirus vaccines: Most promising and effective COVID vaccines found so far

Vaccines for the novel coronavirus may become available to Americans by mid-December after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration grants emergency use approval. ...

FDA authorises emergency use of experimental Covid drug given to Donald Trump

The treatment is by USA biotech company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. and uses casirivimab and imdevimab to be administered together. Clinical evidence from ...

How the Oxford vaccine works: The half dose regime that surprised scientists

Monday's statement said "positive high-level results from an interim analysis of clinical trials of AZD1222 in the United Kingdom and Brazil showed the vaccin...

US expects to begin COVID vaccinations in early December

Also earlier this month, US biotechnology company Moderna released preliminary data, saying its COVID-19 vaccine appears to be 94.5 percent effective. The cri...

AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine 70% effective at tackling coronavirus

The vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, showed an average efficacy of 70% in preventing the coronavirus , according to the company. Speaking to t...

After Pfizer and Moderna, this company`s COVID-19 vaccine shows 70% efficacy

Somani for its vaccine next month, and get the regulatory greenlight in January, provided there was robust efficacy data from Astrazeneca's trials. All result...

British vaccine is 70.4% effective against Covid-19, data shows

Dr Maheshi Ramasamy, investigator at the Oxford Vaccine Group and consultant physician, said: "Older adults are a priority group for Covid-19 vaccination, b...

Clemson's Swinney: 'COVID was just an excuse' for FSU to cancel game

Same with the coaches. "And if they want to play Clemson, in my opinion, they need to come to Clemson or they need to pay for all expenses". Swinney was upset...