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Israel is said to be the number one nation in the world in deploying Covid-19 vaccines, followed by the UAE. Israel has administered at least one dose of the U.S.’s Pfizer vaccine to more than 46 percent of its nine million population, and the risk of illness from Covid-19 has dropped 95.8 percent among people who received both shots, Reuters reported. On February 21, Israel reopened large swathes of its economy with the government saying the start of a return to routine has been enabled by Covid-19 vaccines administered to almost half the population. "I had two doses of vaccine at the end of January and mid February and it felt good," said Doan Thi Nga, a Vietnamese living in Jerusalem. She said she suffered some tiredness and pain in the arm after receiving the shot, but these reactions disappeared the next day. She can return to normal life and has got the "green pass" from the authorities, meaning she can go to public spaces such as markets and restaurants; and travel to other places. Nga feels safer now. Three months ago, when her family moved to Israel from Singapore, she was concerned about the way Israelis dealt with the pandemic, which "was not as good as" the Singaporeans. Pham Thanh Lan, a spa owner in Ramat Yishay, a town in the Northern District of Israel, also said she felt fine after two vaccine doses. She too, experienced brief symptoms of fatigue and pain in the injected arm. She is happy now that she can get back to work normally and go anywhere she wants. "I don't worry anymore. I hope that the vaccine will have the highest effectiveness." Awaiting his second shot early March, Nguyen Thanh Long, a technician working on a smart farm in Israel’s Beit She'an City, said he had mild ache in the arm for a day after the first shot. Long also said he believed vaccination was the best way for a country to contain Covid-19 and open the economy up. He said there was a minority in Israel who have doubts about the vaccine. The government …

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Covivac has proved to be safe and effective in experiment following pre-clinical studies in India, the United States and Vietnam, said Ivac director Duong Ngoc Thai. The liquid vaccine, with or without adjuvants, is preservative-free, using the Newcastle disease virus (NDV) vector vaccines expressing the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2. Ivac got down to work on the project in May 2020 and after seven months it had successfully produced three batches on a large scale numbering between 50,000 – 100,000 doses each. The vaccine has triggered a promising immune response and appeared safe in animals in pre-clinical experiments both locally and overseas, said Dr. Thai. Covivac can protect those injected against variant strains of SARS-CoV-2 from the United Kingdom and South Africa, said Dr. Thai, adding scientists are studying the efficacy of the vaccine against other strains. The human clinical trial of the vaccine is to begin in March 2021 and is expected to be complete in October 2021. The first phase of the testing campaign will be carried out at Hanoi Medical University, and the second phase at a medical centre in Vu Thu District, Thai Binh province. Vietnam is entering the second phase of its human clinical trial of the first locally-produced vaccine Nano Covax. The vaccine is said to generate antibodies that help protect volunteers against the UK variant strain. …

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The U.S. government on Saturday authorized Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, enabling millions more Americans to be vaccinated in the coming weeks and setting the vaccine up for additional approvals around the world. The J&J vaccine is the third authorized in the United States, following ones from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, both of which require two doses. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the emergency use authorization of the J&J vaccine for adults aged 18 and older following Friday’s unanimous endorsement by the agency’s panel of outside experts. Shipments to vaccination sites are expected to begin Sunday or Monday. President Joe Biden hailed the move but cautioned Americans against celebrating too soon. “Things are still likely to get worse again as new variants spread,” he said in a statement, urging people to continue washing their hands, wearing masks, and maintaining social distancing. “There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we cannot let our guard down now or assume that victory is inevitable,” he said. Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which are based on new messenger RNA technology, showed higher efficacy rates in pivotal trials that used two doses versus J&J’s single-shot vaccine. Direct comparison, however, is difficult because the trials had different goals and J&J’s was conducted while more contagious new variants of the virus were circulating. “We believe that people should take the vaccine they are able to access,” the FDA’s acting commissioner, Dr. Janet Woodcock, said in a call after the authorization, noting the three vaccines had not been studied head-to-head. “We feel that each of these vaccines will be effective, will prevent hospitalization, deaths and should be used,” she said. In J&J’s 44,000-person global trial, the vaccine was found to be 66% effective at preventing moderate-to-severe COVID-19 four weeks after inoculation. It was 100% effective in …

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