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Bill Gates-backed vaccine alliance looks to raise $7.4 billion from world leaders
Global leaders are set to pledge billions of dollars toward vaccination funding on Thursday at a U.K.-hosted summit that aims to raise at least $7.4…
EU wants to borrow $8.5 billion for vaccines, health care
The European Commission has proposed spending billions to help the EU reduce its dependency on foreign medical supplies. It said nations need to address “vulnerabilities”…
More than 10,000 people to be recruited as Oxford vaccine enters its next trial phase
A possible vaccine for coronavirus being developed in the UK is ready to enter the next phases of clinical trials, researchers have said. Scientists at…
US Covid-19 vaccine trial shows promising early results
Moderna Inc’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine, the first to be tested in the United States, produced protective antibodies in a small group of healthy volunteers, according…
Fed’s Powell: Economy may need vaccine for full recovery
The world’s top economy may not see a full recovery without a vaccine to treat COVID-19, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Sunday. After more…
Coronavirus vaccine will not be available for at least 18 months, French minister says
Much of the world is looking ahead to when a vaccine will be available to protect against coronavirus as without one it’s unlikely that countries…
WHO sees ‘potentially positive data’ in treating coronavirus
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that some treatments appear to be limiting the severity or length of the COVID-19 disease and that it…
Misinformation flood hampers fight for virus vaccine in Africa
The task of introducing a vaccine for the coronavirus faces an uphill struggle in Africa, where a flood of online misinformation is feeding on mistrust…
Pope says coronavirus vaccine must be shared worldwide
Pope Francis called on Sunday for international scientific cooperation to discover a vaccine for the coronavirus and said any successful vaccine should be made available…
‘We can only defeat Covid-19 with a vaccine’, EU’s Ursula von der Leyen tells FRANCE 24
With the EU executive now fully mobilised by the Covid-19 crisis, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, is convening a donors’…
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