Vaccine

COLOMBO – The website run by the State Ministry for Primary Health Care, Epidemic and COVID Disease Control that Sri Lankans were asked to register to receive the COVID-19 vaccine has crashed. Many disappointed people said they could not…
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GENEVA -The World Health Organization (WHO)  gave emergency use approval to AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccines on Monday (15), allowing distribution to some of the world's poorest countries to begin. "The WHO today listed two versions of…
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BRAZZAVILLE/CONAKRY – Health authorities in Guinea on Sunday (14) declared an outbreak of Ebola in the rural community of Gouéké in N’Zerekore prefecture after three Ebola cases were confirmed by the national laboratory, marking the first…
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By Benjamin Mueller and Carl Zimmer LONDON — British government scientists are increasingly finding the coronavirus variant first detected in Britain to be deadlier than the original virus, a devastating trend that highlights the serious…
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COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's health authorities on Tuesday (2) said a 32-year-old doctor who was on the frontline of treating COVID-19 patients had died after battling the virus for over a week, making it the first death of a medical practitioner…
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By Carol Rosenberg WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Saturday (30) halted plans to offer coronavirus vaccines next week to the 40 wartime prisoners at Guantánamo Bay after an outcry over whether the Defence Department was putting terrorism…
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COLOMBO – Half million (500,000) doses of COVISHIELD vaccine, gifted by the Government of India under its  #VaccineMaitri project will arrive in Sri Lanka on Thursday (28), via a  special Air India flight. The consignment, packed in…
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GENEVA -New COVID-19 variants that make the virus more contagious and could render vaccine and antibody protection less effective have spread rapidly across dozens of countries, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday (27). In…
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By Benjamin Mueller and Matina Stevis Gridneff LONDON — The vaccine wars have come to Europe. For months now, wealthy countries have been clearing the world’s shelves of coronavirus vaccines, leaving poorer nations with little hope of…
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COLOMBO – The Government of India is set begin delivery of its COVID-19 vaccine to several neighbouring countries from Wednesday (20), but Sri Lanka is not included in the list as necessary regulatory clearance has not been confirmed.…
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