Japan’s Prime Minister weighs state of emergency
Tokyo, Japan AP Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Monday vaccine approval was being speeded up and border controls beefed up to curb the spread of the coronavirus, and he promised to consider declaring a state of emergency. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and the governors of Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa had asked the national government […]
WHO expects decisions on Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca vaccines in weeks
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The World Health Organization expects to make decisions on whether to give emergency use approval to COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca in the coming weeks, its chief scientist said on Friday. Soumya Swaminathan said the global health body could decide on Pfizer’s vaccine candidate in the next “couple of weeks”, […]