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The European Union will soon start administering AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine — the third vaccine it has endorsed. The European Commission gave conditional authorization to the vaccine on Friday, hours after regulators recommended the move.
Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 Vaccine Is 66% Effective Overall, Over 50 Percent on Emerging Variants
Johnson & Johnson said Friday, (Jan. 29), that its single-dose coronavirus vaccine provided strong protection against moderate to severe COVID-19, although it appears to have a lower effectiveness against a new coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa.
UN chief receives COVID-19 vaccine in New York
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in The Bronx, a few miles uptown from UN Headquarters in New York.
WHO Director-General urges governments to vaccinate health workers and older people
Tomorrow (Saturday 30 January) marks one year since I declared a public health emergency of international concern over the outbreak of novel coronavirus – the highest level of alarm under international law.
Govt to clean up urban housing mess
Government will help those sold unsuitable and undeveloped stands by land barons backed by corrupt urban councils with temporary shelter while the permanent solutions of getting their money back and being allocated legal stands are implemented.
Zacc probes pharmacies in Covid-19 drug scam
SOME pharmacies are allegedly diverting onto the black market drugs bought using foreign currency allotted on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe auction facility and then resold for much higher prices in foreign currency, with drugs that might be able to alleviate Covid-19 symptoms especially vulnerable to this scam.
Zimra targets $387,4bn in 2021
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) will continue meeting collection targets this year ensuring Government can finance expenditure, after it surpassed the 2020 target by over six percent.
2 swept away as dam wall collapses
TWO people died yesterday when they were swept away after Iron Duke Dam near Glendale in Mashonaland Central, partially collapsed following heavy rains that have been pounding the area in recent days.
Roadworks begin at Skyline collapse site
THE section of Skyline-Chimanimani Road that collapsed on Saturday morning has been temporarily filled to allow traffic to flow smoothly, while a detour is being constructed.
New medical school on the cards
A group of Zimbabwean health experts based in the United Kingdom (UK) have combined forces with the Catholic University of Zimbabwe (CUZ) to develop a Medical School and Teaching Hospital and a pharmaceutical plant at the institution.