Pfizer Covid 19 Vaccine

Pfizer COVID-19 shot shines in 'real world' test, prevents severe disease across age groups

The vaccine was found 92 percent effective at preventing severe disease after two shots and 62 percent after one.

WHO recognises 'concerning news' of COVID-19 vaccines not working against variants

Booster shots will likely be needed, since new virus variants are spreading globally and likely to become the predominant strains.

'I don't trust them': Ayatollah Ali Khamenei bans import of Pfizer, AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in Iran

Khamenei’s statement reflects decades of tense relations between Iran and the West which have not abated in the waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency

COVID-19 vaccine delivery to poor countries will start in early 2021, says WHO chief

Almost two billion doses of candidate vaccines have been secured for the Covax facility, created by the UN health agency, to ensure fair access

Covid-19 immunity: ‘Natural immunity’ from Covid-19 infection better than a vaccine?

Considering the unknowns, Covid-19 vaccines have predictably prevented illness, and would be a far safer bet, experts said.

UK approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, vaccinations to begin next week

The UK government says frontline health care workers and nursing home residents will be first in line to get vaccinated.

Italy to receive 3.4 mn doses of Pfizer vaccine in Jan, will provide first tranche to 1.6 mn people

Italy's special commissioner for the virus emergency said he expected Pfizer's authorization from the European Medical Agency to be completed in time for the first vaccines to be administered in January