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4 January 2021
• The US FDA releases a statement about strategies to increase the number of people who vaccinated against COVID-19 (such...
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3 January 2021
• The US surpasses 350,000 deaths from COVID-19 as it reports nearly 300,000 daily cases. Source • Viet Nam reports...
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2 January 2021
• India grants emergency use authorization for two coronavirus vaccines, one from Oxford/AstraZeneca, produced by the Serum Institute under the...
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1 January 2021
• Globally, 10.8 million coronavirus vaccine doses have already been given in 29 countries. Source • The US surpasses 20...
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31 December 2020
• WHO approves the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which allows countries to expedite their own regulatory approval process and enables UNICEF...
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30 December 2020
• Regulators in the UK approve the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine; it has ordered a million doses, 530,000 of which will...
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29 December 2020
• Researchers question whether coronavirus variants, such as B.1.1.7, may emerge from long-lasting coronavirus infections in immunocompromised people; they speculate...
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28 December 2020
• In the US, a record-breaking total of 121,235 people are hospitalized with COVID-19. Source • Novavax cofirms that it...
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27 December 2020
• US coronavirus cases exceed 19 million, having grown by one million in just six days. Source • The US...
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26 December 2020
• Global coronavirus cases exceed 80 million. Source • Sweden reports its first case of the new coronavirus variant in...
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25 December 2020
• After coronavirus cases increased by 52 percent from November to December, Nigeria’s CDC reports that a new coronavirus variant...
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24 December 2020
• A Turkish infectious disease expert, Dr Serhat Unal, reports on results from a trial of Sinovac’s coronavirus vaccine; of...