The coronavirus pandemic brought global renown to the mRNA technology that underpins vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, and on Monday earned a Nobel Prize for two scientists who have been key to its development. Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize for
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The battle for Covid-19 vaccines: the rich prevail over the poor
The 164-member World Trade Organization (WTO) has implicitly rubber-stamped a widely-condemned policy of “vaccine apartheid” which has discriminated the world’s poorer nations, mostly in Africa and Asia, depriving them of any wide-ranging intellectual property rights. As Max Lawson, Co-Chair of the People’s Vaccine Alliance and Head of Inequality Policy at Oxfam,
Dhaka to get vaccines from India soon
Serum Institute of India will resume the Covid-19 vaccine export to Bangladesh soon, said Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Vikram Kumar Doraiswami on Wednesday. "Vaccine production has increased in India. Hopefully, just as the export of oxygen has started, the export of vaccines will also start soon," he said while talking
FM hopeful of getting 3.5m doses this month
Serum may resume vaccine export in July/August
India, depending on the scale of production of vaccines within the country, is aiming at July-end or August to at least release those vaccines that have been bought by Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal and are now in pending status, reported The Print on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh
Formal announcement over vaccine coproduction soon: FM
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday said they will hopefully be able to make a formal announcement soon on vaccine co-production in Bangladesh as there has been a progress in the ongoing negotiation. He, however, said it is up to them (vaccine-manufacturing countries) to choose local pharmaceutical companies for
Pragmatic talks underway over vaccines: Ambassador Li
Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming on Wednesday said that a very pragmatic discussion is underway on procurement of COVID-19 vaccine doses from China to meet the needs of Bangladesh. He also said there is very "encouraging progress" between the two countries over co-production of vaccines, the Ambassador said while addressing
COVID-19: Denmark ceased AstraZeneca vaccine rollout
Denmark on Wednesday decided to completely cease administering the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the country's health authority said during a joint press conference with the Danish Medicines. Director-General of the Danish Health Authority Soren Brostrom said "Based on the scientific findings, our overall assessment says there is a real risk of severe