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the way for a broad revaccination programme this winter. Britain's Joint Committee on Vaccination

arrow-right The nurse, who has not been publicly identified, had initially admitted to giving six patients shots of saline solution after suspicions were raised in April.... She said she did so to cover up the fact that she had dropped a vial of the Pfizer vaccine, German television channel NDR reported. Story continues below advertisement However, since antibody testing was carried out, a much wider group of people is suspected to have been affected.... “ I am totally shocked by this episode,

MOSCOW( Reuters)-Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he was self-isolating after several members of his entourage fell ill with COVID-19, including someone he worked with in close proximity and had been in close contact with all of the previous day.... Putin, who has had two shots of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, explained the situation to a government meeting by video conference after the Kremlin said he was" absolutely" healthy and did not have the disease himself.... Let's see ho

Vladimir Putin, 69, claims he has not contracted Covid even though he coughed throughout a public meeting broadcast live on state television.... Mr Putin, who has served as Russian President for over 20 years, went on to hold a meeting with national security leaders where he insisted he regularly tests for a variety of illnesses, including coronavirus." Don't worry, everything's fine," he said." They do tests practically on a daily basis not only for COVID-19 but for all other infections and ev

Asituation isemerging where vaccination has been transformed from aprivate choice into amobilisation tool ofthe state tocombat the pandemic, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Oleg Barabanov. Over the past month, more and more countries have begun toannounce mandatory vaccination against coronav

WASHINGTON — Pfizer’s CEO says “ it’s a question of days, not weeks ” before the company and German partner BioNTech submit data to U.S. regulators for federal authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine for children age 5 to 11. That would be an important step toward starting vaccinations for those youngsters, especially with kids now back in school and the delta variant resulting in a big jump in pediatric infections. Pfizer said last week that its vaccine works for that age group and that it tested a

No data on its efficacy has been released yet. The immunization drive in Russia has been hampered by widespread vaccine hesitancy.... Some experts believe the true figure is even higher. Reports by Russia’s statistical service, Rosstat, that tally coronavirus-linked deaths retroactively, reveal much higher mortality.... Rosstat uses wider criteria for counting virus-related deaths and takes its numbers from civil registry offices where registering a death is finalized. ———Follow all of AP’s pa

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during a cabinet meeting via video conference in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on Nov.... Putin was vaccinated with Sputnik V, Russia's domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine, in the spring.... In accordance with established scientific protocols, the vaccine will need to go through several trial phases, including those involving thousands of people, to establish that it is safe and effective to

From the very beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been no shortage of predictions about when it will end. Most of them have been optimistic in nature and had a pronounced aim to calm society.