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700 more Alberta peace officers to enforce COVID-19 rules
Edmonton has the most active cases with 6,614. There were 1,077 new cases reported in the past 24 hours after 15,900 tests were performed. Of those, 86 Albertans are in intensive care. Depending on the severity of the violation, fines for breaking health restrictions could range from a $1,000 ticketed offence to a $100,000 fine through the court system. [Full Article...]
United Kingdom could start distributing Covid-19 vaccine next week
The Pfizer vaccine still requires approvals from regulator including the US Food and Drug Administration and Malaysia's Health Ministry before it can be distributed, Muhyiddin said. The two agreements are expected to guarantee access to Covid vaccines for 30% of the citizens: Malaysiakini. As the race for a vaccine nears the end, the World Health Organization is calling on African countries to c... [Full Article...]
CDC panel to meet Tuesday on coronavirus vaccine distribution
The country's death toll since the pandemic's start is now more than 264,000. Cases have surged across the country with more than 262,000 coronavirus-related deaths in the U.S.in the previous year, according to the CDC . Vaccines by Pfizer and BioNtech, as well as Moderna and AstraZeneca have shown promising results in large clinical trials, but there is no question of "cutting corners", said T... [Full Article...]
Malaysia secures Pfizer vaccine in a first for Southeast Asia
Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said on Friday that Malaysia would prioritise "high-risk groups. including frontliners, senior citizens, and those with non-communicable diseases, such as heart diseases and diabetes". According to reports , the health minister said that it did not make sense to consider the Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine as even the U.S. regulatory authority had not yet granted approva... [Full Article...]
World Health Organization backs calls for further trials on Oxford Covid vaccine
With hundreds of people still dying from the coronavirus each day in Britain and the country's hospitals under enormous stress, Dr. Ward said that any vaccine at AstraZeneca's level of effectiveness deserved strong consideration. The company has previously said it might add a new arm to its USA trial to test the lower dosage. Astra and researchers have declined to provide more data ahead o... [Full Article...]
Victoria continues COVID-free streak with no new cases, no deaths
The number of active cases in South Australia has dropped from 36 to 23, as people are cleared of the virus. The last active case of coronavirus was discharged from a Victorian hospital on Monday, while Friday marked four weeks since the last case was diagnosed. [Full Article...]
CDC panel plans meeting to discuss COVID-19 vaccine distribution
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has said the USA expects to see 40 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine available by the end of December. Malaysia also signed an accord with the Covax facility to provide vaccines for 10% of the population. These include China's Sinopharm Group Co Ltd and Sinovac Biotech Inc, Moderna Inc, Novovax, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and COVAXX, a unit of ... [Full Article...]
HIV: One child or teen newly infected every 100 seconds
World AIDS Day was introduced by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) in 1988 and is observed annually on 1 December to raise awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by HIV infection. In many countries, HIV services have been disrupted and supply chains for key commodities have been stretched. Dr Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, says: "I remember when a diagnosis of HIV seemed like... [Full Article...]