vaccine

Uzbekistan develops edible tomato COVID-19 vaccine

Uzbekistan develops edible tomato COVID-19 vaccine

Uzbek scientists have created an edible COVID-19 vaccine synthesized from the common tomato called TOMAVAC, according to the Frontiers research journal website. According to the journal, the scientists inserted a fragment of …

Armenia starts using Russian Sputnik Light as booster jab

Armenia starts using Russian Sputnik Light as booster jab

Armenian citizens who were fully vaccinated can receive the Russian Sputnik Light as a booster jab, the press service of the Health Ministry said. "The Sputnik Light vaccine was included in the list of drugs authorized in the …

WHO approves new American COVID-19 vaccine

WHO approves new American COVID-19 vaccine

The American anti-coronavirus vaccine Nuvaxovid from Novavax is included in the list of treatments for coronavirus COVID-19. It is said in a statement by the World Health Organization (WHO). "WHO has published …

Indian-made Sputnik Light to be supplied to Russia - media

Indian-made Sputnik Light to be supplied to Russia - media

The Government of India has authorized the export of a single-component anti-coronavirus vaccine Sputnik Light of Russian development and Indian production to Russia, the Press Trust of India reports, citing sources. "The …

Trump reveals details of his vaccination

Trump reveals details of his vaccination

Former US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Yahoo Finance that he was vaccinated against the COVID-19 coronavirus with the Pfizer vaccine. "Well, I was vaccinated with Pfizer, but I would be very happy with any of …

Putin spokes about vaccination during Q&A session

Putin spokes about vaccination during Q&A session

Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding his annual Q&A broadcast with Russians on Wednesday where he responds to questions from people across the country.    At the start of the event, he said he had been …

Austria ready to purchase Sputnik V, Sebastian Kurz says

Austria ready to purchase Sputnik V, Sebastian Kurz says

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that negotiations with Russia on the purchase of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine were finished. Sputnik V would be an additional booster [for the vaccination campaign in Austria] with a volume …

Why South Korea still hasn’t vaccinated anyone

Why South Korea still hasn’t vaccinated anyone

South Korea has earned international plaudits as a model for its success in COVID-19 mitigation. Employing systematic approaches for testing, contact tracing, segregation, and quarantine, South Korea has, throughout the pandemic, managed to …

Tunisians to acquire Russian vaccine

Tunisians to acquire Russian vaccine

Tunisia has become the third country in Africa after Algeria and Guinea, where the Russian anti-coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V was registered, the country's health ministry informed today. "The Sputnik V vaccine has been …

Azerbaijan Reveals Vaccination Plans

Azerbaijan Reveals Vaccination Plans

Vaccination of Azerbaijan’s population against Covid-19 will start in early 2021 following the finalization of negotiations for the purchase of vaccines. Authorities in the country defined scientifically substantiated safety as the key criteria a vaccine should meet, Caspian News writes in the article Azerbaijan Reveals Vaccination Plans Amidst Negotiations With Major Vaccine Developers