Nearly two thirds of Russians are not willing to receive Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, and about the same number believe the new coronavirus was created artificially as a biological weapon, an independent pollster said on Monday.
“Our findings show a dramatic reduction in the rate of positive screening tests among asymptomatic healthcare workers after a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine,” said Nick Jones, an infectious diseases specialist at Cambridge University Hospital, who co-led the study.
According to an analysis released by U.S regulators, Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine against severe cases of the coronavirus - as the long-anticipated shot could offer the nation a third option to help speed vaccinations by requiring a single dose, rather than two.
Ukraine received 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine on Tuesday, marketed under the name Covishield and produced at the Serum Institute in India.
COVAX is co-led by the WHO, the GAVI vaccines alliance, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the United Nations children's fund UNICEF.
The latest round of fund-raising, co-led by Temasek and GL Ventures, an affiliate of Asia-focused private equity Hillhouse Capital, brings Clover's total capital raised in the last 12 months to more than $400 million.
But over the weekend, the Korean Medical Association (KMA), the largest grouping of doctors, said it would go on strike if parliament passed the bill to revoke the licences of doctors getting jail terms.
Russian stock indexes were falling, with the dollar-denominated RTS index down 0.3% to 1,472.3 points and the rouble-based MOEX Russian index 0.4% lower at 3,457.7 points.