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An official from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Sunday is trying to urge EU states to refrain from granting approval for Russia s COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V. The official suggests individual EU nations should hold back while the EMA reviews the safety and effectiveness of the Russian jab. Speaking to Austrian broadcaster ORF EMA managing board head Christa Wirthumer-Hoche said: “We need documents that we can review.
France has vaccinated just five percent of its population (Image: GETTY)
Australia has called on the European Commission to review the decision.
EU member states, unlike the UK, gave the European Commission responsibility for vaccine procurement.
However it failed to acquire sufficient quantities of approved vaccines causing outrage across the continent.
Responding to the Italian export ban Dr Omar Khorshid, president of the Australian Medical Association, told the BBC it is “disappointing to see this vaccine nationalism rearing its head”.
The EU has vaccinated significantly less people per capita than the UK (Image: EXPRESS )
The EU has been locked in a fierce row with AstraZeneca after the company announced earlier this year it wouldn’t be able to provide as many Oxford vaccines as hoped.
COVID-19: Forget Pfizer vaccine, administer Ivermectin on Nigerians, Neuroscientist tells Nigerian govt
Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug believed to also have anti-Covid properties, although it has not been confirmed by relevant health authorities.
The Nigerian government should abandon its plans to procure vaccines from pharmaceutical companies and focus on administering
Ivermectin on Nigerians, Philip Njemanze, a medical doctor and research professor of neuroscience, has said.
Speaking at a virtual conference tagged ‘Information for Healthcare Professionals and the Media on Pfitzer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines’ Friday, Mr Njemanze said the government needs to strategically handle the pandemic by administering drugs that help the body fight against the infection and reduce its viral load.
U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, a New Jersey Democrat and lung cancer survivor, has tested positive for Covid-19.
Watson Coleman, 75, of Ewing, believes she was exposed after sheltering with several maskless colleagues during last week’s storming of the U.S. Capitol, according to a statement from h