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Governor Announces Statewide Curfew and Mask Mandate to Combat COVID-19
The order also reduced allowed social gatherings from 25 people to 10 people. ABC and the Health Department do most of the enforcement and Northam said 200 visits to businesses have happened in a month. Continued limits on dining establishments: Virginia restaurants are now governed by strict social distancing and sanitization requirements, which remain in place. [Full Article...]
Panel seeks more vaccine data before emergency nod
India, the world's biggest vaccine maker, has reported almost 10 million Covid-19 infections, putting it behind the United States globally in overall cases. The government had said on Tuesday that some vaccines may be approved in the coming weeks. The subject experts committee (SEC) constituted by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), which reviewed the emergency use applications of Serum... [Full Article...]
Health Canada Has Approved Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine
The vaccine has initially been authorised for use in people 16 years of age or older. The UK began inoculating people on Tuesday, making it the first nation in the Western world to inject members of the public with an authorised vaccine . [Full Article...]
Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Targeted in EU Cyberattack
It is not clear whether documents unrelated to the vaccine were also accessed and an ongoing investigation has as yet not produced any clues to who the perpetrators are. 'This gives us a very robust data set on which to make a decision, both on safety and efficacy, ' she said at a committee meeting of the European Parliament . [Full Article...]
Premiers Participate In First Ministers Meetings With PM
During a COVID19 update this week, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic Leblanc was asked whether the request for more long term federal health care funding would be talked about. The premiers' demand for more health-care cash comes as the federal government is facing an unprecedented deficit approaching $400 billion. But the premiers contend that amounts to only 22 per cent of the actu... [Full Article...]
Doctors’ strike on Friday; healthcare services likely to be hit
Emergency services such as Covid hospitals, ICUs, accident and trauma services, and maternity homes and neonatal ICUs will be functional. Calling it "mixopathy", the IMA had earlier also threatened to withdraw all non-essential, non-Covid services in hospitals and hold demonstrations across the country on December 8. [Full Article...]
Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Trial to Include New Roche Antibody
Swiss healthcare company Roche announced Wednesday its newly approved coronavirus antibody test will be used in clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna . Measuring the quantitative levels of anti-RBD SARS-CoV-2 antibodies using Roche's test will help Moderna to gain valuable insights into the correlation between protection from vaccination and antibody levels. [Full Article...]
U.S. FDA panel votes in favor of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine
As of Thursday evening, the US had recorded 15.5 million cases and more than 291,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The committee voted 17-4 that the known benefits of the vaccine outweighed the risks of taking the shot for individuals 16 years of age and older, with one member of the panel abstaining. [Full Article...]