(Bloomberg)
President Joe Biden’s push to begin offering third doses of Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine faces the first of two crucial tests Friday when advisers to the Food and Drug Administration meet to discuss whether booster shots should be offered to most Americans.
The United States has administered 360,634,287 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Friday morning and distributed 426,106,115 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
(Bloomberg) Lesotho is probing the deaths of five people who had received the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine in its northern district of Leribe, according to Health Minister Semano Sekatle.
Japan's state of emergency restrictions are not curbing movement as effectively as in the past, according to mobility data, hurting the government's fight to slow COVID-19 infections and raising the risk the economic recovery could be delayed.
Oil prices skidded on Thursday for a sixth session, hitting lows not seen since May, as investors pulled back over concerns about weakened global demand as COVID-19 cases climband on the back of a rise in the U.S. dollar.