The Ecuadorian Government reiterated this Tuesday that it will keep its land border with Peru closed, as a prevention and control response to the spread of COVID-19. “Given the information related to the decision of the Government of Peru to proceed with the reopening of its land borders as of December 1”, the Chancellery indicated […]
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EMA estimates that adapting vaccines to the omicron variant will take between three and four months
Updated on 11/30/2021 11:59 am The director of the European Medicines Agency, Emer Cooke, said on Tuesday that the agency has plans to accelerate the adaptation of vaccines to the new omicron variant if necessary, a process that he has estimated will take between three and four months. . In an intervention in the European […]
Pfizer could have a new vaccine against the omicron variant in 100 days
Updated on 11/30/2021 11:24 am In a period of 100 days, a vaccine could be developed against the new omicron variant of COVID-19, said the president and director of Pfizer Spain Sergio Rodríguez Márquez during his statements in the Congress of Deputies. Before the Investigation Committee on the management of vaccines and the Vaccination Plan, […]
Regeneron Says His COVID-19 Drug May Be Less Effective Against Omicron Variant
Updated on 11/30/2021 11:10 am Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc reported that analyzes suggested that its cocktail of antibodies against COVID-19, and similar drugs, may have reduced activity against the omicron variant of the coronavirus. The drugmaker said the analysis shows that the individual mutations present in the omicron variant indicate “that there may be a reduced […]
COVID-19: current vaccines could be ineffective against omicron variant, warns Moderna chief
Updated on 11/30/2021 10:44 am COVID vaccines created so far could struggle to combat the variant omicron and it will take months to finalize a new effective immunizer against that strain, the president of the American laboratory Moderna told the Financial Times. Stephane Bancel told the newspaper, in an interview published on Tuesday, that the […]
Oxford University Says No Evidence Yet Vaccines Do Not Protect Against Serious Omicron Disease
Updated on 11/30/2021 09:34 am The University of Oxford stated that there was no evidence that the vaccines did not prevent severe omicron variant disease, but that it was prepared to rapidly develop an updated version of its AstraZeneca-developed vaccine if necessary. Earlier on Tuesday, the director of drug maker Moderna said COVID-19 vaccines were […]
The omicron variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus, a new threat to the global recovery
Brutal victim of the pandemic, the convalescent world economy is already affected by the omicron variant of the coronavirus, which is accompanied by restrictive measures, especially in the air transport sector. First reported less than a week ago to the World Health Organization (WHO) in South Africa, this new strain was detected from the Pacific […]
Almost 50% of households in Latin America earn less than before the pandemic
The recovery of the economy is shown unevenly in Latin America and the Caribbean, who are trying to get out of the COVID-19 crisis with a weakened economy, lower incomes in nearly half of households and twice as food insecure, according to a survey published this Monday, November 29 by the World Bank and the […]
Ómicron highlights the inequality in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
Updated on 11/29/2021 04:49 pm The appearance of the new variant omicron And the world’s desperate and probably futile attempts to keep it at bay are reminders of what scientists have warned for months: The COVID-19 coronavirus will thrive as long as vast parts of the planet lack vaccines. The hoarding of limited COVID-19 vaccines […]
“Vaccine”, word of the year 2021 for the Merriam-Webster dictionary
The American Merriam-Webster dictionary on the internet announced that “vaccine” is the word of the year 2021, after registering significant interest in a term that it said went beyond the medical dimension to dominate the social debate in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Few words can express so much in a period of time,” […]