Published February 24, 2021
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It turns out a Queensland doctor who gave two people an overdose off the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine hadn’t completed the necessary training. They’ve now been stood down for obvious reasons.
Patients are supposed to receive two doses of the Pfizer vaccine three weeks apart. However on Tuesday, the doctor in question actually gave two doses consecutively to two people aged 88 and 94 at Brisbane’s Holy Spirit Nursing Home. There are even reports the two residents revived four doses in total.
Beijing China is moving ahead with two more COVID-19 vaccines in the regulatory process, one from state-owned company Sinopharm and another from a private company CanSino.
Both vaccines have submitted been to regulators for approval this week. CanSino said that Chinese regulators are reviewing its application for its COVID-19 vaccine, in a stock filing on Wednesday. Sinopharm’s subsidiary the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products announced Wednesday that it had submitted an application Sunday and that regulators were reviewing it.
China already has approved two vaccines that it has been using in a mass immunization campaign. One of them is also from Sinopharm, but it was developed by its Beijing subsidiary. The other is the Sinovac vaccine.
Many nations in the Asia-Pacific region are rolling out the first shots for COVID-19 this week.Here's a look at major developments:SOUTH KOREASouth Kore.
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