UN News - Despite encouraging news about COVID-19 vaccines and cautious optimism over potential new tools against the disease, “this is not the time for complacency,” the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday during his latest press briefing in Geneva. WHO chief Tedros
UN Chief emphasises the need for COVID-19 vaccine to be affordable and available to all to curb the current global pandemic. UN News - “The outbreak remains out of control”, Secretary-General António Guterres declared in his press conference ahead of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) High-level Week, noting that soon one million lives will be “lost to the virus”. Recognising that
UN News - The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) will be leading procurement and supply of COVID-19 vaccines to ensure that all countries have safe, fast and equitable access to initial doses when they are available. The vaccine procurement and distribution effort, involving over 170 economies, has the
Russia's 'Sputnik V' vaccine showed promising results Russia's COVID-19 vaccine is found to be successfully generating antibodies that are similar to those who are naturally recovering from the novel coronavirus. This is according to the report released Friday in the weekly peer-reviewed The Lancet, one of
UN News - There is likely only a slim possibility of people being reinfected with COVID-19, said WHO, following reports in Hong Kong that a man had contracted new coronavirus for a second time after an interval of more than four months. Speaking to journalists in
Moscow - Russia is the first country to register a coronavirus vaccine after less than two months of testing on humans. Officials dubbed the vaccine "Sputnik V", named after the Soviet-era satellite that was the first launched into space. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the vaccine,
Poorer countries slated to get their supply this year A multinational pharmaceutical and bio-pharmaceutical company has now the capability to produce 2 billion doses of a likely vaccine that can effectively curb the highly contagious coronavirus, which has been ravaging countries all over the world since
