#vaccine

A World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine safety panel said on Wednesday that it considers that the benefits of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine outweigh its risks and recommends that vaccinations continue. ...

The European Union on Wednesday threatened to ban exports of COVID-19 vaccines to Britain to safeguard scarce doses for its own citizens facing a third wave of the pandemic that ...

Six countries demanded more COVID-19 vaccines from the European Union on Wednesday, the latest setback to the bloc’s troubled inoculation campaign that risks undermining plans to restart travel this ...

It has been decided to buy an amount of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine once it will be approved by the European Medicines Agency, government spokesman Kyriakos Koushos told state ...

What is Covid-19 Vaccine Janssen and what is it used for? Covid-19 Vaccine Janssen is a vaccine for preventing coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in people aged 18 years and older. Covid-19 is ...

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 could be produced in Europe for the first time after a commercial deal to produce it in Italy was signed by the Moscow-based ...

To date, 103,283 people in Cyprus have received at least one Covid vaccination dose and 29,821 were given both jabs, reports said on Tuesday. Among the 73.462 who received the first dose were 1,345 ...

Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot COVID-19 vaccine appeared safe and effective in trials, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staff said in documents published on Wednesday, paving the way ...

The World Health Organization’s global vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX delivered its first COVID-19 shots on Wednesday, as the race to get doses to the world’s poorest people and tame ...

The ‘vaccination passport’ deal reached with Israel last Sunday for Israeli travellers to Cyprus cannot be replicated with other countries at the moment, according to Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas ...

Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE have asked the U.S. health regulator to relax requirements for their COVID-19 vaccine to be stored at ultra-low temperatures, potentially allowing it to be ...

India’s Serum Institute will ship COVID-19 vaccines to Canada within a month, its chief executive said on Monday, in a sign a diplomatic row triggered by Canadian Prime Minister ...

British ministers, health workers and volunteers will join a weekend drive to encourage those in the most vulnerable groups to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, as the government nears its target ...

People over 76 will have access to the vaccination portal from Friday 9 am so that they can book an appointment, the health ministry has announced. A total of 9,264 appointments will be ...

As the AstraZeneca vaccine is different from the other two – Pfizer and Moderna – already being used, the health ministry will in future inform people in advance which vaccine will be ...

The Covid-19 AstraZeneca vaccine reduces but does not eliminate the risk of coronavirus infection, the health ministry said on Tuesday. In an announcement with instructions for the public concerning the ...

Health officials around the world gave their backing to the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19, after a study showing it had little effect against mild disease caused by the variant now ...

Akel on Friday blasted the EU’s coronavirus vaccination programme as a massive failure with serious repercussions on public health and the societies and economies of Europe. In a strongly ...

People aged 83 and over will be able to book a coronavirus vaccine on the vaccination portal from 9am on Wednesday, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The vaccination portal had ...

We all know prevention is better than cure, but are we focusing too much on the vaccine? Of all the many questions thrown up by the Covid-19 crisis, this one ...

The health ministry announced Saturday it was opening 3,904 vaccination appointment slots on Monday for people aged 84 and above who have not yet received a Covid jab. The appointments concern the ...

Cyprus expects to take delivery of 69,403 doses of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine in February, the health ministry said on Friday, the same day the jab was approved by the European ...

No specific safety concern has been identified for use of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in frail elderly individuals, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Friday, days after reports ...

Cyprus recorded 22 possible side-effects during the first month of Covid-19 vaccinations, the health ministry’s pharmaceutical services said on Tuesday. According to the health ministry, 22 people said they experienced certain ...