The recent case of Owen v Willow Tower, in which a vegan whose employment contract was terminated following the refusal of a Covid vaccine on the grounds of vegan beliefs, raises questions around the threshold for legal protection, says Dr. Jeanette Rowley in an article published this week in the Law Gazette.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has received the third dose of vaccine for the coronavirus, an Iranian physician said.
We hear so much in woke Britain about ‘hate crime’ and how terrible it is. But right now, we’re in the midst of an extremely nasty campaign against those who don’t wish to take a Covid vaccine and somehow that’s deemed acceptable. “The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was […]
The Iranian Red Crescent Society on Sunday took delivery of the largest shipment of the coronavirus vaccine that the country has imported since the outbreak of the pandemic in February 2020. The consignment, including one million doses of vaccine, has been provided by the Red Cross Society of China, IRCS Secretary-General Mohammad Hassan Qosian said. […]
Sputnik V, the COVID-19 vaccine from Russia, has been given ‘Emergency Use Authorisation’ in India by a panel of experts. It is the third vaccine Indian authorities have given approval to after Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin and the University of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield vaccine. The approval on Monday was given by the Subject Expert Committee. The regulator Drug […]
Germany and the Netherlands are investigating delaying giving out second doses of their coronavirus vaccines in an effort to inoculate more people. The European Medicines Agency says the second dose should be given within six weeks of the first to ensure maximum protection. But some countries are looking at extending this. They want to get […]
The coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is expected to be approved for use in the U.K. in coming days. The Financial Times reported Sunday that government officials confirmed that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency would imminently approve the vaccine, saying the announcement could come as soon as Tuesday. The Sunday Telegraph […]
The EU drug regulator has brought forward its ruling on the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine after Germany made it clear it wanted approval before Christmas. The Amsterdam-based European Medicines Agency’s announcement that it will meet on 21 December instead of 29 December to decide whether to authorise the shot followed a growing backlash from desperate EU countries, with […]
Moderna said Monday it would request emergency clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for its coronavirus vaccine after new data confirms the vaccine is more than 94% effective in preventing Covid-19 and was safe. Moderna is the second drugmaker to seek emergency use from the FDA after Pfizer, another front-runner in the Covid-19 vaccine race, applied […]
The Covid vaccine developed in the UK by Oxford University and AstraZeneca can protect 70.4% of people from becoming ill and – in a surprise result – up to 90% if a lower first dose is used, results from the final trial show. The Oxford vaccine is the third to produce efficacy results, following Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna whose […]
