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Germany mulls delaying second COVID-19 vaccine shot, Denmark approves delay
Some German health experts have welcomed Britain’s move to delay administering a second dose of the BioNTech/Pfizer shot, which comes as governments try to provide protection against coronavirus to as many people as possible by giving them one shot and delaying a second.
However, BioNTech and Pfizer pointed in a joint statement to a lack of trial data to support delaying the second dose.
Aviation deaths rise worldwide in 2020 even as fatal incidents, flights fall
Large commercial airplanes had 0.27 fatal accidents per million flights in 2020, To70 said, or one fatal crash every 3.7 million flights — up from 0.18 fatal accidents per million flights in 2019.
The decline in crashes came amid a sharp decline in flights due to the coronavirus pandemic. Flightradar24 reported commercial flights it tracked worldwide in 2020 fell 42% to 24.4 million.
More than half of all deaths in the To70 review were the 176 people killed in January 2020 when a Ukrainian plane was shot down in Iranian airspace.
Israel could become 1st nation to vaccinate all its citizens
Health professionals have attributed the success of the vaccination programme to several factors, including the fact that Israel’s population is relatively small and young. PM Benjamin Netanyahu has taken on the vaccination drive as a personal mission and has taken credit for securing millions of Pfizer and Moderna doses
More than 50 countries launch Covid-19 vaccination campaigns
In Asia, Singapore launched its campaign on Wednesday with the same vaccine.
Other countries on the Asian continent however have decided to take their time: India, Japan and Taiwan plan to begin vaccinations in the first quarter of 2021 and the Philippines and Pakistan in the second quarter, while Afghanistan and Thailand plan to start in mid-2021.
SolarWinds hackers accessed Microsoft source code, the company says
The SolarWinds hack is among the most ambitious cyber operations ever disclosed, compromising at least half-a-dozen federal agencies and potentially thousands of companies and other institutions. U.S. and private sector investigators have spent the holidays combing through logs to try to understand whether their data has been stolen or modified.
Britain will allow mixing of COVID-19 vaccines on rare occasions
Mary Ramsay, head of immunisations at Public Health England, said this would only happen on extremely rare occasions, and that the government was not recommending the mixing of vaccines, which require at least two doses given several weeks apart.
Finland confirms first adverse reaction to Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
“When there are at least five such reports, we will put information on our website about the type of reactions that have occurred,” the agency’s Chief Physician Maija Kaukonen told the broadcaster, adding that no further details could be disclosed due to patient confidentiality.
China’s Fosun plans plant to make BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine: Caixin
Fosun Pharma had said it aims to move from importing finished vaccine from the German company to conducting some filling procedures on its own, using imported bulk ingredients and then eventually making vaccines from scratch, though it has not announced a specific timeline.
AXA to sell its Greece operations for €165 million
Paris: AXA announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Generali to sell its insurance operations in Greece. Under the terms of the agreement, AXA will sell its Life & Savings and Property & Casualty businesses in Greece for a total cash...
WHO emergency COVID-19 vaccine listing aims to lift access in poor countries
The United Nations health agency said it will work with regional partners to tell national health authorities about the two-dose shot and its anticipated benefits.
The WHO established its emergency use listing (EUL) process to help poorer countries without their own regulatory resources quickly approve medicines new diseases like COVID-19, which otherwise could lead to delays.