Chinese COVID-19 vaccine maker gets $500m funding boost 1
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Chinese COVID-19 vaccine maker gets $500m funding boost

‌Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech has secured half a billion dollars in extra funding to produce its Covid-19 vaccine, it said Monday, as the country races to roll out a jab for general use. Beijing has largely brought the virus under control, with only 281 active cases still receiving treatment, according to official figures. But

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COVID-19: Trump Disagrees With CDC Chief Over Readiness Of Virus Vaccine 2
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COVID-19: Trump Disagrees With CDC Chief Over Readiness Of Virus Vaccine

The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has contradicted Robert Redfield, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over the timing of any Covid-19 vaccine. While Redfield told a US Senate committee a vaccine was unlikely to be ready until mid to late 2021, Trump said it

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JUST IN: FG Receives Russia’s COVID-19 Vaccine 3
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JUST IN: FG Receives Russia’s COVID-19 Vaccine

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has received samples of Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine from Russia’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Alexey Shebarshin. In a statement on Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine by the Ministry’s Director of Information, Media, and Public Relations, Olujimi Oyetomi, the Russian envoy made the delivery during a visit to the ministry in Abuja. Recall that

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Covid-19: China Patents First Locally Developed Vaccine As Efficacy Is Affirmed 5
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Covid-19: China Patents First Locally Developed Vaccine As Efficacy Is Affirmed

Chinese authorities have granted the first invention patent to a domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which experts said demonstrates the vaccine’s originality and creativity, and would enhance the international market’s trust in Chinese-developed COVID-19 vaccines amid the US’ groundless accusations of Chinese hackers trying to steal novel coronavirus data on treatments and vaccine development from

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Exclusive: Vaccine alliance finds manufacturing capacity for 4 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine 6
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Exclusive: Vaccine alliance finds manufacturing capacity for 4 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine

By: Julie Steenhuysen(Reuters) An influential foundation focused on preparation and response to epidemics that is backing nine potential coronavirus vaccines has identified manufacturers with capacity to produce four billion doses a year, the group’s top manufacturing expert told Reuters. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) plans to have two or three manufacturing plants for

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