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China’s ‘zero-Covid’ approach has been successful, but it risks leaving the country increasingly isolated as others open up – so approving inoculations such as Pfizer-BioNTech will help the country re-engage with the world.
- Elderly residents can go to community vaccination stations run by private clinics or designated general outpatient clinics under Hospital Authority
- First batch of XBB-targeted vaccines from BioNTech and Pfizer arrived in November, with fresh order from Moderna expected to arrive soon
Vaccination arrangements for the 100,000-jab batch manufactured by US drug firm Pfizer expected to be announced in December.
British pharmaceutical company GSK beats Pfizer in race to offer vaccine that can protect elderly against common respiratory infection.
The FDA decision opens the newest vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to most Americans even if they have never had a Covid vaccination.
Filipino Ontal Charlene Vargas died of myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart. A coroner ruled it was likely related to the vaccine she had received.
The approval comes during reprieve from tsunami of infections but another wave could be on the way after Lunar New Year migration.
Patients who took the Chinese pill, known as VV116, recovered after a median time of 4 days and it had fewer adverse effects compared with the Pfizer drug.
It’s important that governments listen ‘when the people are in pain,’ a top official said in wake of protests in the country over coronavirus restrictions.
Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine saw the pharmaceutical company become the world’s most visible drug maker, but with its stock falling in 2022, success has left investors impatient for an encore.
Large-scale study shows positive effects of two drugs given early to patients still in the community.
FDA has authorised emergency use of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna boosters that target BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron.
The vaccine is adapted to the BA.1 variant and Germany will receive about 14 million doses of the vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, subject to EU approval.
Moderna has filed a lawsuit against the two pharmaceutical firms and said it was seeking damages for activities occurring after March 8 this year.
The 79-year-old president is fully vaccinated and twice boosted and had begun taking Pfizer’s anti-Covid pill Paxlovid – he will continue carrying out his full duties while isolating at the White House.
AWcorna vaccine produced 4.4 times more Omicron antibodies than for those boosted with Sinovac, scientists behind clinical trial write in Cell Research journal.
The US pharmaceutical giant currently holds patents for 23 drugs, including Comirnaty and Paxlovid, its Covid vaccine and oral treatment; this commitment will increase access to nearly 1.2 billion people, Pfizer chief said.
Despite success in preventing serious illness and death, there’s growing pressure to develop vaccines better at fending off milder infections on top of aggressive variants.
Taiwan sales rights for the child version of the vaccine belong not to producer Pfizer but to BioNTech and its Chinese sales agent, Fosun Pharma.
The approvals add CanSino and CSPC to the race among Chinese companies to use mRNA to fight the coronavirus, offering viable alternatives to the vaccines already in production by Pfizer and Moderna.
Hospital Authority has bought antiviral drugs molnupiravir, made by US firm MSD, and Pfizer’s Paxlovid, with both having been administered to patients for two weeks.
Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group is looking into which of its existing plants can be used to manufacture generic versions of Pfizer’s nirmatrelvir, which is sold under the Paxlovid brand name, and Merck’s molnupiravir.
Hospital Authority Chief Manager Dr Lau Ka-hin says public health facilities have administered MSD’s molnupiravir to 8,500 patients so far.
The five Chinese drug makers were among 35 firms to sign non-exclusive sublicensing agreements with the United Nations-backed MPP.
Pfizer Covid shots, sparkling clean streets and tax-free policies are among the draws. And for investors with US$2.7 million to spare, there are ‘Golden Visas’, too.
Drug maker Shionogi is seeking regulatory approval as Japan currently relies on shots from Pfizer and Moderna; Covid-19 has already infected 5 million people in the country and killed more than 24,000.
The German firm, which developed its Covid-19 shot with Pfizer, hopes to the move will make the jabs more widely available on the continent.
Oral pill to be given to adults with mild to moderate Covid-19 and high risk of progression to severe disease.
A preprint study suggests adding a dose of Pfizer after two shots of the Chinese vaccine boosts protection but was not enough to stop Omicron infection.
The 26-year-old died from the heart condition myocarditis that was likely caused by the Pfizer vaccine, an independent safety monitoring board said.
