PIC: These countries have a Covid-19 vaccine rollout
With plenty of vaccines offered by big pharma companies such as Johnson & Johnson, these are the countries who have chosen their vaccine including for emergencies.
This picture taken on 23 November 2020 shows a bottle labelled ‘Vaccine Covid-19’ next to US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech logos. Picture: Joel Saget/AFP
The Covid-19 vaccine rollout is rapidly occurring around the world particularly in the west with the United States and Britain already providing doses.
The United States on Friday authorized Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, paving the way for millions of doses of a second jab to be shipped across the hardest-hit country in the world.
The European Union (EU) have chosen the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, doses are expected by the end of the year, with some countries naming December 27 as a start date.
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In November Russia announced its vaccine Sputnik was 92 per cent affective, based on results from 16,000 individuals who received both doses of the vaccine, Russia’s health ministry, the state-run Gamaleya research centre and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said in a statement.
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With plenty of vaccines offered by big pharma companies such as Johnson & Johnson, these are the countries who have chosen their vaccine.
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