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Havana, Cuba Jul 9 (EFE) (camera Felipe Borrego) .- Latin America has its first indigenous vaccine for covid-19: the Cuban formulation Abdala, with an efficacy of 92.2% in clinical trials.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam receives the Chinese Covid-19 Sinovac vaccine, along with other Hong Kong leaders. IMAGES
Frontline health workers in Islamabad are administered Chinese-made Covid-19 vaccines in a ceremony where commemorative shields are also given to the vaccinated staff. Beijing has donated about 500,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine -- which has yet to be fully approved by China's health authorities -- with a further million expected by the end of the month. But Pakistan is still months away from a mass roll-out of jabs. IMAGES
Igor Shepherd is the Readiness and Countermeasures Program Manager for Wyoming's State Health Department. And according to Business Insider, he voiced a rather unorthodox opinion at a nearly ninety-minute talk he gave on November 10th. In it, Shepherd described vaccines as biological weapons and a plot by Russia and China to spread communism worldwide. He made the comments at a November 10 event held by the Keep Colorado Free and Open group, which advocates for constitutional rights amid the pandemic. The plan of destruction right now is going at full speed. Igor Shepherd, Readiness and Countermeasures Program Manager State of Wyoming Shepherd's baseless claims undermine efforts to limit COVID-19's spread and distribute a vaccine. It also props up unscientific 'anti-vaxxer' claims. Johns Hopkins University reports there have been 278,996 US COVID-19 deaths and a 12.5% case rise in Wyoming this week. Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has called those who won't take the pandemic seriously 'knuckleheads.'