Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

United States vice president, Mike Pence, on Friday received a COVID-19 vaccine shot live on television in a public display designed to boost national confidence in the drug. Speaking after being injected at Walter Reed Medical Center,…

Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has said Nigerians should expect to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of January 2021. He stated this on Wednesday during the 28th Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Council…

Pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, has revealed that he is yet to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. It would be recalled that US Food and Drug Administration last week Friday gave approval for the emergency use of …

Israel has received its first batch of Pfizer/BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring the pandemic’s end is “in sight” and vowing to get the first jab. Speaking on the tarmac at Ben…

British health officials has on Wednesday warned that anyone with a history of significant allergic reactions should not received the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for the time being. The warning came after two members of the…

A 90-year-old woman named Margaret Keenan has on Tuesday, December 8 become the first person in the United Kingdom and in the world to receive Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine outside trial conditions. The grandmother, who is from …

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is set to receive Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine within weeks after UK regulators granted approval with the world's first roll-out to begin this week, it has emerged. The 94-year-old monarch and her…

United Kingdom to commence the administration of first doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 on Tuesday, it has emerged. Chris Hopson, head of NHS Provider, a membership organisation for the National Health Service trusts…

Developers of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine have said it is 95 percent effective against the virus. Russia’s health ministry, the state-run Gamaleya research center and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) in a statement…

Biotech companies, Pfizer and BioNTech have on Wednesday, November 17 revealed that a completed study of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine showed it is 95 percent effective against the virus. They said the two-dose vaccine had no…