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Training may be approved, but many tournaments still far off from happening, says PH official

Brian Yalung
Posted at Jul 05 02:45 AM

PSC officer-in-charge Ramon Fernandez wants to see a fully working COVID-19 vaccine first before saying for sure that competitions across all sports can be held again. Read more »

Indonesia seeking its own COVID-19 vaccine amid worry about access

Kate Lamb, Reuters
Posted at Jul 02 08:23 PM

Indonesia is working to produce its own COVID-19 vaccine next year, amid growing anxiety that developing countries could have difficulty getting access to a future jab, the head of Indonesia’s national COVID-19 research team said Thursday. Read more »

BioNTech and Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine shows potential in human trial

Ludwig Burger and Patricia Weiss, Reuters
Posted at Jul 02 12:58 AM

BioNTech said testing of 2 dosages of its BNT162b1 drug on 24 healthy volunteers showed that after 28 days they had developed higher levels of COVID-19 antibodies than typically seen in infected people. Read more »

CanSino's COVID-19 vaccine candidate approved for military use in China

Reuters
Posted at Jun 30 11:50 AM

China's military has received the greenlight to use a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by its research unit and CanSino Biologics after clinical trials proved it was safe and showed some efficacy, the company said on Monday.   Read more »

Brazil strikes deal to produce Oxford test vaccine

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 28 07:42 AM

Brazil said Saturday it had reached a deal to produce up to 100 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine being developed by Oxford University, which the country is helping to test.   Read more »

WHO-led coalition says $31.3 billion needed to fight COVID-19

Kate Kelland and Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters
Posted at Jun 26 10:47 PM

A World Health Organization-led coalition fighting the COVID-19 pandemic is asking government and private sector donors to help raise $31.3 billion in the next 12 months to develop and deliver tests, treatments and vaccines for the disease. Read more »

Vaccine against COVID-19 not certain, maybe in a year: WHO

Reuters
Posted at Jun 26 01:06 AM

It is not certain that scientists will be able to create an effective vaccine against the coronavirus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, but it could take a year before one were to be invented, the head of the World Health Organisation said. Read more »

Vaccine makers face biggest medical manufacturing challenge in history

Julie Steenhuysen and Kate Kelland, Reuters
Posted at Jun 25 11:25 PM

Developing a COVID-19 vaccine in record time will be tough. Producing enough to end the pandemic will be the biggest medical manufacturing feat in history. Read more »

Chinese military researchers move new COVID vaccine candidate into human trial

Roxanne Liu and Se Young Lee, Reuters
Posted at Jun 25 02:27 AM

A Chinese military research institute has been approved to test its second experimental coronavirus vaccine in humans, the eighth candidate in clinical trials for China as it emerges as a front-runner in the global fight against COVID-19. Read more »

Trials with Oxford COVID-19 vaccine start in Brazil

Reuters
Posted at Jun 23 08:00 PM

SAO PAULO - Oxford University this weekend started human clinical trials for a potential coronavirus vaccine in Brazil, sponsor Lemann Foundation said in a statement late on Monday. Read more »

Sanofi expands US vaccine venture in COVID-19 race

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 23 04:36 PM

Sanofi said they have "multiple COVID-19 vaccine candidates" in the works and hope to start a clinical trial with humans in the fourth quarter of this year. Read more »

Sanofi eyes approval of COVID-19 vaccine by first half of 2021

Matthias Blamont, Reuters
Posted at Jun 23 01:49 PM

PARIS - French drugmaker Sanofi SA said on Tuesday it expects to get approval for the potential COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with Britain's GlaxoSmithKline Plc by the first half of next year, faster than previously anticipated.   Read more »

Duterte claims 'many countries have perfected' COVID-19 vaccines

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 22 11:17 PM

However, no vaccine has yet been fully developed against COVID-19, as of June 22, Monday. Most are still in trial stages. Read more »

The hunt for COVID-19 treatment, vaccines

Olivier Thibault and Paul Ricard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 19 03:30 AM

Dozens of drugs tested. More than 100 vaccine candidates. With hundreds of clinical trials underway, here is a rundown of the major developments in the search for COVID-19 treatments and prevention. Read more »

WHO hopes for hundreds of millions of vaccine doses this year, 2 billion next year

Reuters
Posted at Jun 18 07:26 PM

Around 10 potential vaccines are now undergoing trials in humans, in the hope that a shot to prevent infection can become available in coming months. Read more »

China's COVID-19 vaccine candidate shows promise in human trials, CNBG says

Reuters
Posted at Jun 18 12:40 PM

BEIJING/SINGAPORE - China National Biotec Group (CNBG) said on Tuesday its experimental coronavirus vaccine has triggered antibodies in clinical trials and the company plans late-stage human trials in foreign countries. Read more »

1st clinical test in Japan of coronavirus vaccine to start June 30

Kyodo News
Posted at Jun 17 08:44 PM

OSAKA - A clinical test of a potential vaccine for the new coronavirus developed by medical startup Anges Inc. will start June 30 in Japan, Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura said Wednesday, envisioning to put it into practice next year. Read more »

Singapore scientists to start human trials of COVID-19 vaccine in August

Reuters
Posted at Jun 16 07:47 PM

Singapore scientists testing a COVID-19 vaccine from US firm Arcturus Therapeutics plan to start human trials in August after promising initial responses in mice. Read more »

Ilang kompanya nasa huling yugto na sa pag-develop ng COVID-19 vaccine

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 14 07:03 PM

Nakatakda nang simulan ng Department of Science and Technology at mga katuwang na drug manufacturer ang clinical trials para masubukan ang bisa ng ilang bakuna kontra COVID-19. Read more »

China races to find virus vaccine, put scandals in the past

Ludovic Ehret, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 13 04:54 PM

BEIJING, China - China has mobilised its army and fast-tracked tests in the global race to find a coronavirus vaccine, but its labs also have an image tarnished by past health scandals to overcome.   Read more »