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11 December 2020
• UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls for a globally coordinated coronavirus vaccine effort, saying, “ The response has been...
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10 December 2020
• The US reports a record-breaking daily coronavirus death toll, surpassing 3,000 people. Source • Nature Communications publishes a global...
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9 December 2020
• South Africa is experiencing a second wave of coronavirus cases, with exponential increases in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal; Health Minister...
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8 December 2020
• The US surpasses 15 million cases of coronavirus, as both hospitalization and death rates continue to break records. Source...
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7 December 2020
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president, announces his opposition to mandatory vaccination and that he will refuse the coronavirus vaccine, although he...
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6 December 2020
• The US reports one million coronavirus cases over the first five days of December. Source • Pfizer, Serum Institute...
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5 December 2020
• China’s deputy head of an expert task force on vaccine development under the State Council, Wang Junzhi, announces that...
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4 December 2020
• Executives at the pharmaceutical corporations which are developing vaccines are dubbed “Covillionaires” – the net worth of BioNTech’s Chief,...
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3 December 2020
• The US surpasses 14 million coronavirus cases. Source • The CDC publishes an interim recommendation on allocating the first...
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2 December 2020
• Regulators in the UK, who has accepted coronavirus vaccine data on a rolling basis, approve Pfizer’s vaccine – before...
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1 December 2020
• The EMA announces that it will decide on approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine no later than 29 December;...
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30 November 2020
• Pfizer completes the rolling review process it began with the European Medicines Agency in October, by submitting a formal...