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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says that Brussels is ready to discuss a US-backed proposal to waive patents on Covid-19 vaccines. SOUNDBITE
Tehran (Iran), Dec 22 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Abedin Taherkenareh).- Iranians complain that the country's government has not yet requested the Covid-19 vaccine to any foreign country. According to local media, Iranian authorities have announced that the locally manufactured vaccine could be ready in spring 2021. FOOTAGE OF TEHRAN.
Beijing, Sep 24 (EFE), (Camera: Javier García).- A Covid-19 vaccine currently in the advanced stages of testing will be ready for mass public use by early next year, the president of Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech said Thursday.Yin Weidong told Efe and other media on a tour of Sinovac’s laboratories and factory in Beijing that the company had the capacity to produce 300 million doses of the vaccine, called CoronaVac, each year.Sinovac began constructing a specialized research laboratory for Covid-19 immunization in March and has been producing the potential future vaccine for several weeks.Yin said researchers explored seven different methods of vaccination and found that the use of the “inactivated vaccine” had proven to be the most effective.He said that phase III testing in subjects over 18-years-old had not shown any side-effects and that the vaccine was capable of immunizing all the variations of SARS-Cov-2 in the world.FOOTAGE OF SINOVAC BIOTECH.SOUNDBITES OF YIN WEIDONG, PRESIDENT OF SINOVAC:"We estimate that the vaccine can be applied to the general population early next year."
The premier of Ontario announces that he will lift vaccine passport requirements in the Canadian province, the epicenter of protests against Covid-19 health measures for more than two weeks now. SOUNDBITE
Canadian truckers stage a protest outside the parliament against Covid vaccine mandates, in Canada's capital Ottawa. The trucker-led protests have shut down central Ottawa for 14 days, trying to force the government to lift Covid-19 health regulations. The so-called Freedom Convoy began last month in western Canada -- launched in anger at requirements that truckers either be vaccinated, or test and isolate, when crossing the US-Canada border. IMAGES
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