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Q&A: What’s changed with Covid-19 vaccines and will it cause delays?
- Health
- February 4, 2021, 17:28
State health officials have decided not to give the Covid-19 vaccine regarded as a “game-changer” in the fight against the virus – the Oxford-AstraZen(...)

Allowing pharmacies to give AstraZeneca jab to health workers could ‘speed up’ rollout
- Health
- February 4, 2021, 10:52
The Covid-19 vaccine rollout could be “speeded up” by allowing pharmacies administer the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine to healthcare workers, the pharmac(...)

Covid-19: Pregnant women account for 548 cases since pandemic started
- Health
- February 4, 2021, 03:55
A total of 548 cases of Covid-19 have been reported among pregnant women in the State since the start of the pandemic, Health Service Executive (HSE) (...)

Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine shows efficacy of 91.6%
- Health & Pharma
- February 2, 2021, 13:28
Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine provided strong protection against Covid-19 in an interim analysis of an advanced clinical trial. Its backers said it appea(...)

EU confirms Pfizer to deliver 75m extra vaccine doses
- Health & Pharma
- February 1, 2021, 11:04
Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech will deliver 75 million extra doses of their Covid-19 vaccine in the second quarter of the year, European Commi(...)

Studies in Israel offer optimism for effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccine
- Middle East
- January 31, 2021, 15:42
Studies in Israel have offered tentative optimism on the effectiveness of vaccines in curbing the coronavirus pandemic, with initial data suggesting e(...)

One-shot Covid vaccine from Johnson & Johnson 66% effective
- Health & Pharma
- January 29, 2021, 13:35
A one-shot vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson generated strong protection against Covid-19 in a large, late-stage trial, raising hopes that it(...)

Prospects for game-changing AstraZeneca vaccine become increasingly clouded
- Health & Pharma
- January 29, 2021, 05:50
Europe’s medicines regulator sits down today to consider approval for a vaccine that has from a long way out been expected to be a game changer in fin(...)

Covid-19: Novavax says its coronavirus vaccine was 89.3% effective in UK trial
- Science
- January 28, 2021, 22:32
Novavax Inc said on Thursday its coronavirus vaccine was 89.3 per cent effective in preventing Covid-19 in a trial conducted in the UK, and was nearly(...)

The Irish Times view on the vaccine priority list: a striking anomaly
- Editorial
- January 28, 2021, 18:45
The Government still believes it is “likely” that everyone in the Republic will be vaccinated by September, but that is now an “aspiration” rather tha(...)