49 community pharmacies across Queensland had begun the rollout and started offering the COVID-19 vaccine to members of the community. The Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s Chris Owen, Queensland Branch’s Acting President, has welcomed this announcement ...
Some countries in the European Union have temporarily suspended the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as a precautionary measure based on reports of rare blood coagulation disorders in persons who had received the vaccine. ...
Phase 1B of the COVID-19 vaccine national roll-out strategy will commence on March 22, 2021. Here is what you need to know: Who will be vaccinated under Phase 1B, based on recommendations by the Australian ...
COVAX, the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, regardless of income level, today announced the signing of an advance purchase agreement with Pfizer for up to 40 ...
NEW YORK/ GENEVA: The four leading international health and humanitarian organizations announced today the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure outbreak response. The effort to establish the stockpile was led by the ...
COVAX now has agreements in place to access nearly two billion doses of several promising vaccine candidates and laid the groundwork for further doses to be secured through contributions from donors These agreements mean that ...
The first COVID-19 Vaccine for public use was given to 90-year-old grandmother, Margaret Keenan, in the biggest vaccination campaign by the NHS. Keenan became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 ...
The INTERPOL Orange Notice outlines potential criminal activity in relation to the falsification, theft and illegal advertising of COVID-19 and flu vaccines, with the pandemic having already triggered unprecedented opportunistic and predatory criminal behaviour. It ...
According to CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), we could get ourselves protected by getting a flue shot and pneumonia vaccine (full article here). Some adults are still hesitant of getting vaccines. Just like ...
Phase one testing for a COVID-19 vaccine is about to start in Australia, in exactly the third such trial within the world. Australian clinical trials specialist Nucleus Network will partner with US-based biotechnology company Novavax ...
Moderna Therapeutics, a biotech company based in Cambridge, Mass., has shipped the first batches of its COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine was created just 42 days after the genetic sequence of the COVID_19 virus, called SARS-CoV-2, ...
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