Gerontology & Geriatrics

Vaccine effective for elderly in Brazil facing COVID-19 Gamma variant

The AstraZeneca vaccine, which is being widely used in Brazil and elsewhere in response to an epidemic wave of the SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant, affords significant protection to the elderly when the vaccine's full two-dose schedule ...

Vaccination

AstraZeneca says Covid vaccine sales top $1.0 bn

British pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca said Thursday that its COVID jab generated $1.2 billion (1.0 billion euros) in sales in the first half of the year as global vaccination programmes accelerated.

Vaccination

Research results on mix-and-match vaccinations published

Considerable international interest was generated at the beginning of June when Martina Sester, Professor of Immunology at Saarland University, published a preprint of her research into mixing different types of COVID-19 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Australian city Melbourne ends 5th COVID-19 lockdown

Australia's second-most populous city Melbourne will end its fifth lockdown on Tuesday with the Victoria state government declaring it had beaten an outbreak of the highly contagious COVID-19 delta variant for a second time.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Thailand tightens measures as daily cases cross 10,000

Thailand has tightened coronavirus restrictions and warned of further measures as daily cases surpassed 10,000 and the death toll hit a record 141 on Saturday despite an overnight curfew in Bangkok and several other provinces.

Vaccination

Sinovac-dosed Thai health workers to get AstraZeneca booster

A nighttime curfew and other new coronavirus restrictions began Monday in Thailand's capital and several other provinces, as health officials announced that medical workers will given booster shots of AstraZeneca vaccine ...

Vaccination

Japan to ship another 1.1M AstraZeneca doses to Taiwan

Japan is set to send another 1.1 million donated AstraZeneca doses to Taiwan this week to help the self-governing island fight its worst COVID-19 outbreak amid a struggle to get vaccines.

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