GENEVA/ZURICH: Dozens of countries on Wednesday pledged nearly $2.4 billion to the COVAX vaccine-sharing plan to widen availability of Covid-19 shots to people in poorer nations who have so far come up short.The announcements, ranging from $2,500 from island nation Mauritius to millions of dollars and doses from larger, wealthier countries, came during a.
Over 30 percent of Louisiana fully vaccinated for COVID as of Thursday
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BATON ROUGE - Louisiana administered 34,969 doses of the COVID vaccine in the past several days.
According to the Louisiana Department of Health, 1,632,376 people across the state have received at least their first dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines or received the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The state says 1,447,591 people have been fully vaccinated. That s over 31 percent of the state s population.
As of Thursday, 2,973,879 total doses have been administered in Louisiana.
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May 28, 2021
Moscow: Like many Moscow residents, Davlatmo Khadamshoyeva has her doubts about coronavirus vaccines developed in Russia, and is in no hurry to be immunised. I haven’t got the jab yet. I don’t really trust it, the 23-year-old, not wearing a mask, told AFP outside an iconic shopping centre on Red Square. The vaccine hasn’t been fully tested yet, the international relations student said.
Russia with great fanfare registered the world’s first coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V in August 2020. Named after the world’s first satellite launched by the USSR in 1957, Sputnik has been touted by President Vladimir Putin as the world’s best jab, while leading independent medical journal, The Lancet, deemed it effective in a study published in February.