 | | | | Pfizer Inc said on Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had extended its review of the company's experimental treatment for atopic dermatitis by three months. | | | | | | The European Commission said on Wednesday that delivery shortfalls of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine were a global issue, not something to be addressed only in talks between the EU and Australia. | | | | | | Malta will start a gradual easing of COVID-19 curbs this month, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Wednesday, as the country forges ahead with vaccinations at a much faster rate than elsewhere in the European Union. | | | | | | Thailand has detected at least 24 cases of the coronavirus variant B.1.1.7 first identified in Britain, a government health expert said on Wednesday, its first known domestic transmission of the highly contagious variant. | | | | | | Nigeria has directed its 36 states and federal capital territory to stop giving first doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines once they use half their current stock in order to safeguard supply for the second dose, its health minister said. | | | | | | South Korea has temporarily suspended vaccinating people aged under 60 with AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, the Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday, citing health authorities. | | | | | | The European Medicines Agency (EMA) expects to hold a briefing on the possible side effects of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday at 1600 CET (1400 GMT). | | | | | | European Union health ministers will hold a meeting on Wednesday on vaccine rollouts after the EU drugs regulator announces its decision on the safety of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the EU presidency said. | | | | | | PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis installed on Wednesday his fourth health minister since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit the country hard, amid growing pressure to seek vaccines from Russia and possibly also China. | | | | | | The number of new coronavirus infections in Hungary is stagnating but the number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals is still "very high", the surgeon general said, as the country began to gradually reopen its economy on Wednesday. | | | | | | ZURICH (Reuters) -Deliveries of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine are on track to meet the number of doses it promised to the European Union, a spokesperson for the U.S.-based drugmaker said on Wednesday, following a report of delays in Germany. | | | | | |
