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On suspicion of giving prosecutors false information
09 Aprile 2021
MILAN, APR 9 - Ranieri Guerra, Assistant
Director-General for Strategic Initiatives at the World Health
Organization and former Italian health ministry director general
for prevention, has been placed under investigation by
prosecutors in the northern town of Bergamo on suspicion of
giving false information to prosecutors during an interview on
the COVID pandemic plan on November 5, judicial sources said
Friday.
The probe concerns the management of the COVID outbreak in the
Bergamo area during the first wave of the coronavirus a year
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By NICOLE WINFIELD | Associated Press | Published: April 9, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. ROME Italian prosecutors have accused a top World Health Organization official of lying to them about a withdrawn U.N. report into Italy s coronavirus response, revealing private communications Friday that are likely to embarrass the U.N. agency. Prosecutors in Bergamo placed Dr. Ranieri Guerra, WHO s assistant director general, under investigation for allegedly making false declarations to them when he voluntarily agreed to be questioned in November. Guerra had been WHO s liaison with the Italian government after Italy became the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe last year.
NEW YORK â Drug giant Pfizer and its partner in developing the first COVID-19 vaccine that received emergency authorization in the U.S. want to allow more adolescents to receive the vaccine.
New York-based Pfizer and BioNTech SE of Germany have asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to expand the emergency use authorization for their vaccine to include adolescents ages 12 through 15. Back in mid-December, the two-dose shot received emergency clearance for vaccinating people ages 16 and up.
Pfizer and BioNTech said they are working closely with the FDA and regulators in other countries to get emergency or conditional authorization as quickly as possible for kids ages 12 through 15.
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