The U.S. government has placed an initial order for 100 million doses of a vaccine candidate being developed by Pfizer and a German firm, BioNTech, for $1.95 billion, the companies announced Wednesday. The U.S. can acquire up to 500 million additional doses, the statement said. Meanwhile, federal unemployment benefits are taking a hit […]
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Pfizer covid vaccine – Dado Ruvic / Reuters Coronavirus Article Bar with counter .. The Government says it has secured an agreement for 30 million doses of a vaccine being developed – and currently at phase two trials – by BioNTech and German firm Pfizer. There has also been an in-principle […]
More than 12 million cases of Covid-19 have been recorded around the world – AFP Coronavirus Article Bar with counter .. Globally, cases rose to more than 12 million on Wednesday, with 548,799 deaths according to a Johns Hopkins University tally. The United States continues to be the hardest hit country reporting […]
Global infections from the novel coronavirus have surpassed 10 million as the rate of new cases surges, according to an AFP tally on Sunday. One million new cases were recorded in only six days, according to the AFP count, just as countries start to unwind punishing lockdowns that have devastated […]
Boris Johnson More than 2 million people who are under orders to stay home and be fully “shielded” will be told they can stop isolating at the end of next month, it has emerged. After being forced to “cocoon” themselves at home since the beginning of lockdown, members of the public […]
(CNN) — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is donating $100 million to the nation’s four historically Black medical schools to help ease the student debt burden for the next generation of Black physicians. The billionaire’s charity, Bloomberg Philanthropies, announced the donation on Thursday as part of Bloomberg’s Greenwood […]