 | | | | U.S. President Joe Biden will convene a virtual summit devoted to increasing global vaccinations Wednesday on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, the White House said on Friday. | | | | | | A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday voted against approval of a booster dose of the Pfizer Inc /BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine for people aged 16 and older. | | | | | | The United States has administered 383,994,877 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Friday morning and distributed 464,315,725 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. | | | | | | President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order adding measles to a list of communicable diseases that could require quarantine after several Afghan refugees were diagnosed with the highly contagious disease after arriving in the United States. | | | | | | Valero Energy Corp is requiring new employees at Texas and Louisiana refineries to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 1, said people familiar with the matter. | | | | | | Debate over the need for COVID-19 booster shots is clouding the outlook for Moderna Inc's high-flying shares after the U.S. biotechnology company's stock price soared as much as 360% this year, making it the best performer in the S&P 500. | | | | | | An exhibition of white flags representing Americans who have died of COVID-19 opened on Friday, covering more than 20 acres of the National Mall in Washington. | | | | | | India gave a record 22.6 million vaccinations on Friday, three times the average daily total during the past month, as some states organised special inoculation drives on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday. | | | | | | Bookings for COVID-19 vaccinations jumped in Italy on Friday after the government made inoculation mandatory for all workers in some of the strictest anti-coronavirus measures adopted in the world. | | | | | | The United States plans to buy hundreds of millions of additional doses of the Pfizer Inc COVID-19 vaccine to donate around the world, The Washington Post reported on Friday, citing two unidentified people familiar with the deal. | | | | | |
