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Emmanuel Macron urged Europe to share vaccine with Africa

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Emmanuel Macron the French president said that Europe and the United States should urgently allocate 3% to 5% of their coronavirus vaccine supplies to developing countries where vaccination campaigns have scarcely begun. In an interview granted to the UK-based Financial Times newspaper, he said some African nations were having to …

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Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine 91.6% effective in late-stage trial

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Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine was 91.6% effective in preventing people from developing COVID-19, according to peer-reviewed results from its late-stage clinical trial published in The Lancent international medical journal on Tuesday. “The development of the Sputnik V vaccine has been criticised for unseemly haste, corner cutting, and an absence of …

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United Kingdom: national security prevents publication of vaccine supply data

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According to a junior British Minister, Britain cannot publish details of the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine supply contract because it would jeopardize national security, as the European Union threatened drug companies over supply delays. Scotland will publish covid-19 detailed vaccine supply data next week even though the British government has refused …

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