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Ottawa, Feb 3 : Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada’s National Research Council-owned Royalmount facility will produce millions of Covid-19 vaccine shots developed by Maryland-based Novavax.The Canadian company in Montreal su…

Jakarta, Feb 3 : A total of 10 million doses of raw materials for Covid-19 vaccine from the Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech reached Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Indonesia’s city of Tangerang, an official said.”The governm…

Santiago, Feb 3 : The Chilean government received a second shipment of nearly two million vaccines developed by Chinese firm Sinovac Biotech, which will be used to begin the mass vaccination in Chile, scheduled to start on Wednesday.Chilean Deputy He…

New York, Feb 3 : A racial gap has appeared in the Covid-19 vaccination drive in the United States, with African Americans lagging behind in terms of receiving jabs, according to a recent analysis by a media outlet.The study showed that in the 17 sam…

Dhaka, Feb 3 : The Bangladesh government has rejected the desperate “smear campaign” instigated by extremists and their allies working from London and elsewhere, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said in a statement on Tuesday.The ministry also …

Havana, Feb 3 : The Cuban Ministry of Public Health reported that the number of Covid-19 cases in the pediatric age group continues to rise, after registering 111 new cases in the last 24 hours.According to data from the health ministry, during the a…

London, Feb 2 : German pharmaceutical company BioNTech and US-based pharma major Pfizer are increasing manufacturing capacity to produce two billion doses of Covid-19 vaccine this year amid a surge in the global demand.”In order to respond to an incr…

Moscow, Feb 2 : Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine demonstrated efficacy of 91.6 per cent against Covid-19, according to interim results of phase 3 trials published in the journal The Lancet.Data on 19,866 volunteers were included in the efficacy analysis – …

London, Feb 2 : Scientists have found that the Kent variant of Covid-19, which has been spreading around the UK, appears to be undergoing some worrying new genetic changes.The tests on some samples showed a mutation, called E484K, which has already b…

Los Angeles, Feb 2 : Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie says she is currently focussed on healing herself and her family, since the last few years have been tough on all of them.Angelina parted ways with ex-husband Brad Pitt in 2016 but never spoke ope…