Beijing: China will ratchet up efforts to improve the new system of mobilising resources nationwide to achieve breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields, foster strategic emerging industries and invest more in basic research and forward-looking fields amid a broader drive to cultivate new productivity boosters, officials and experts say. Highlighting the significance of technological innovation in promoting industrial innovation and accelerating development of a modern industrial system,

In its worst-case scenario, the U.N. agency says production would be 6 billion doses next year, due to stringent regulation for new shots and manufacturing issues with existing ones.... Vaccines would also be shared equitably across the world.... There would be no need for boosters as vaccines would show strong efficacy against variants and long protection.( Reporting by Francesco Guarascio@ fraguarascio; Editing by Josephine Mason and Emelia Sithole-Matarise)....

Pfizer reported on Wednesday that the power of its two-dose COVID vaccine wanes slightly over time, but nonetheless offers lasting and robust protection against serious disease.... The company suggested that a third shot could improve immunity, but whether boosters will be widely needed is far from settled, the subject of heated debate among scientists.So far, federal health officials have said boosters for the general population are unnecessary.... “ These data don’t support a need for that r

The panel also supported boosters for health care and other front-line workers, like teachers, who are at higher risk for occupational exposure.... Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, told ABC News Friday.... An estimated 2 million people have received a third mRNA based vaccine from the two manufacturers....

Andrew Cuomo said he had a" productive" meeting with President Donald Trump Tuesday at the White House where the two discussed coronavirus testing." The meeting went well and I think it was productive," the Democrat said in a phone interview with MSNBC.... And I think we had a very good conversation." Trump has often sparred with his fellow New Yorker over the federal response to the coronavirus outbreak as the Empire State has struggled to cope with the pandemic.... More than 258, 000 cases o

BANGKOK/ JAKARTA( REUTERS)-Indonesia and Thailand are considering offering a booster shot to their medical workers immunised with Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine, a move likely to reduce public trust in the Chinese product, which has been their main inoculation tool. Some countries including Turkey and the United Arab Emirates have already started giving a booster shot to those inoculated with Chinese vaccines amid concerns that they may not be as effective against new and more transmissible coronavi

World Health Organisation( WHO) experts warned on Tuesday that repeating booster doses of the original Covid-19 vaccines is not a viable strategy against emerging variants and called for new jabs that better protect against transmission.An expert group created by the WHO to assess the performance of Covid-19 vaccines said simply providing fresh jabs of existing vaccines as new strains of the virus emerge was not the best way to fight the pandemic.“ A vaccination strategy based on repeated booste

The deputy chief medical officer for England was joined by colleagues from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency as he announced plans for responding to the new Omicron variant.... The scientists approved the rollout of third Covid jabs for all adults as well as reducing the gap between jabs two and three from six months to just three. Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked the scientists to urgently review their decision to

KUALA LUMPUR: The vaccination status of those required to get their Covid-19 booster shot will be deemed “ incomplete ” if they fail to get their shots by February next year, says Khairy Jamaluddin.“ If these group of individuals still have not got their booster shots after February 2022, their vaccination status will be changed to ‘incomplete’, ” the Health Minister told a press conference in Parliament yesterday.He said those whose status has been changed to “ incomplete ” would not be able to

In quantity, the crude import reached 3. 137 million tonnes in 4MFY25 from 2. 395m tonnes in the previous year. The rise in crude oil imports clearly indicates high transportation and other economic activities in the country.... The surging crude oil imports also translated into higher petroleum product production by local refineries. The PBS data for the first four months of FY25 showed that the output of all 11 petroleum products was higher by 7. 85pc than last year.... The details show that