In the ruinous months of 2020 of closed theaters and starving billboards, the who he looked to 2021 as the great year of recovery. Twelve months later, the balance is one of lights and shadows with an industry that does not finish raising its head in the pandemic. With vaccines as the best ally, cinemas […]
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WHO gives the green light to the first anti-COVID vaccine produced in Latin America
The World Health Organization (WHO) gave the green light to the first COVID vaccine developed in Latin America: a version of the immunizer from the Anglo-Swedish laboratory AstraZeneca manufactured jointly by Argentina and Mexico, announced the PAHO, WHO office for the Americas. The vaccine, in whose preparation the Argentine company mAbxience and the Mexican company […]
Novavax Says Its COVID-19 Vaccine Produces Immune Response To Omicron Variant
Updated on 12/22/2021 06:48 pm The vaccine against COVID-19 from Novavax Inc It is effective in generating an immune response against the omicron variant, and an additional booster dose produces greater resistance to the new mutation, according to the first data from a study. Novavax said the data was taken from its ongoing studies on […]
COVID-19: WHO director affirms that 2022 “has to be the year of the end of the pandemic”
Updated on 12/22/2021 11:23 am 2022 “must be the year in which the COVID-19 pandemic ends, but also the beginning of a new era of solidarity,” said the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. When evaluating the second year of the pandemic, he affirmed that “it was a very hard […]
COVID-19: WHO says some countries may be failing to report omicron cases
Updated on 12/22/2021 09:26 am The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that there could be countries that avoid reporting the detection of cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus for fear of suffering travel restrictions, as an explanation for the low number of cases registered in the Eastern Mediterranean region . The regional director […]
WHO urgently approves Novavax’s COVID vaccine
Updated on 12/21/2021 10:22 am The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the anti-COVID vaccine from the American company Novavax, based on a more classical and different technology from the drugs already widely used in the European Union. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) had already authorized the marketing of this immunizer, Nuvaxovid, on Monday. In […]
WHO asks countries to cancel New Year and Christmas celebrations due to omicron advance
Updated on 12/21/2021 10:22 am The director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, asked countries to redouble their efforts to end the pandemic and also asked to cancel the New Year celebrations because it is better to “cElevate late to celebrate now and regret later”. “2022 should be the year we end […]
WHO confirms that vaccinated and cured of COVID-19 can be infected by omicron
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed today that there is robust evidence that people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 or those who were infected in the past can contract the omicron variant, the spread of which is accelerating day by day around of the world. At an exclusive press conference for the international press […]
WHO says it is unknown if vaccines have reduced effectiveness against omicron
Updated on 12/20/2021 05:57 pm The World Health Organization (WHO) asked not to draw hasty conclusions about the effectiveness of current COVID vaccines against the variant omicron, since the initial data that point to a decrease in immune protection come from laboratory studies and “not from real life”. “We can understand the great interest and […]
2022 should be the year “in which we end the pandemic,” says WHO chief
Updated on 12/20/2021 01:15 pm 2022 should be the year “in which we end the pandemic,” said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday, who called for reducing inequality in access to vaccines. At a press conference in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed a wish: “2022 should be the year […]