London, April 21, 2021 (AltAfrica)-UK has begun a search for a new antiviral drug intended to treat coronavirus and supplement complement exixting covid vaccines Consequently, Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday launched a government taskforce – modelled on the group that secured UK access to COVID vaccines – to identify the most promising new antiviral medicines. The ...

London, April 12, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Cameroon took delivery on Sunday of 200,000 doses of China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines, the first vaccines to arrive in the country, which will enable it inoculate frontline workers as it battles rising cases of coronavirus, the health ministry said. The Central African nation has been hit hard by a second wave ...

London, Jan. 19, 2021 (AltAfrica)-China has deployed medical doctors as part of a frontline medical team to Ghana to help the West African country curb the spread of COVID-19, dailymailgh.com has learnt. The team includes 11 doctors in various specialities who have been trained on COVID-19 prevention and treatment, said Zhuang Shaohui, Leader of the medical team Sunday. ...

London, Dec. 13, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The united states, US first COVID-19 vaccine will begin arriving in states Monday morning, U.S. officials said Saturday, after the government gave the final go-ahead to the shots needed to end an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans. Trucks will roll out Sunday morning as shipping companies UPS and FedEx ...

London, Dec. 3, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Africa aims to have 60% of the continent’s population vaccinated against the coronavirus within the next two to three years, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Thursday. The continent of 1.3 billion people has recorded more than 2.2 million confirmed coronavirus infections, according to a Reuters ...

London, Dec. 2, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Untied Kingdom on Wednesday became the first Western country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine for general use as it announced a rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech’s drug from next week. “The government has today accepted the recommendation from the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to approve Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for ...

London, Nov. 28, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Seven more covid-19 vaccine could be available by the middle of next year if they win regulatory approval taking the total number of vaccines to ten But the head of the global pharmaceutical industry group said the inventors would need patent protection . READ ALSO: CANADA, US, EU COULD APPROVE PFIZER ...

London, Nov. 20, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The European Union could approve two coronavirus vaccines being tested by Pfizer-BioNTech and by Moderna before the end of next month, EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday.  Speaking after a video summit of EU leaders, von der Leyen said the European Medicines Agency could give “conditional marketing authorisation… as early as the second ...

London, Nov. 17, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Mouthwash is able to kill COVID-19 within 30 seconds of exposure to it in a laboratory, a scientific study has found. The preliminary findings, which are yet to be peer reviewed, come ahead of a clinical trial investigating whether over-the-counter mouthwash can reduce the levels of coronavirus in a patient’s saliva. The research, ...

London, Nov. 9, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The first effective coronavirus vaccine can prevent more than 90% of people from getting Covid-19, a preliminary analysis shows. The developers – Pfizer and BioNTech – described it as a “great day for science and humanity”. READ ALSO: UK FIRM TO TURN MOON ROCK INTO OXYGEN, BUILDING MATERIALS Their vaccine has ...