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Added on the 29/01/2021 14:09:10 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Across the country, some non-healthcare workers are getting their COVID-19 vaccines earlier than expected. In a scattershot practice, non-priority people are getting vaccinated ahead of schedule when pharmacies have extra doses thawed that must be used. Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines need to be stored at cold temperatures and used within hours of thawing. Business Insider reports the phenomenon occurs when vaccine providers must either throw out extra doses when they expire or give them to random people. In other instances, confusion about the amount of doses per vial and rumors of excess supply have led to mishaps in vaccine allocation. The US federal government hasn't specified what should be done when there are more thawed doses than eligible recipients.
President-elect Joe Biden was publicly vaccinated against the novel coronavirus COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. On television, Biden demonstrated that the shot is safe and necessary to protect the country from the virus. COVID-19 has led to the death of nearly 300,000 Americans. According to HuffPost, Biden received his first of the two doses required for the vaccine at ChristianaCare Hospital in Delaware. We owe these folks a lot. The scientists and the people who put this together, the frontline workers, the people that were the ones that did the clinical work. President-Elect Joe Biden
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Colombo, Jun 28 (EFE/EPA).- Sri Lankan senior citizens received on Monday the second dose of the Oxford Astrazeneca (Covishield) COVID-19 vaccine amid the third wave of the pandemic.Sri Lanka is facing a serious shortage of Astrazeneca vaccines to administer the second dose, according to health authorities.The island nation has so far recorded a total of 253,618 COVID-19 cases with 2,944 deaths while a total of 2,605,558 people have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 900,519 have already received the second one. (Camera: CHAMILA KARUNARATHNE). SHOT LIST: SENIOR CITIZENS RECEIVE THE SECOND JAB OF THE OXFORD ASTRAZENECA COVID-19 VACCINE, AT A TEMPORARY VACCINATION SITE IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA.
Lalitpur, Jun 23 (EFE/EPA).- The district of Lalitpur, south of Kathmandu, began Wednesday to vaccinate people over 77 years of age with the second dose of the Covishield vaccine .Nepal has registered more than 626,000 infections and 8,813 deaths from Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.(Camera: NARENDRA SHRESTHA)SHOT LIST: SENIOR CITIZENS GET SECOND DOSE OF COVID-19 VACCINE IN LALITPUR, NEPAL.