Evening vaccine clinic assists Muslim community during Ramadan
VACCINE Some worried receiving a vaccine during the fasting period is considered breaking fast. Sentara was happy to bring the doses to them during the evening, instead. HAMPTON, Va. […]
Indonesian Muslim body clears AstraZeneca use in emergency
BY ASSOCIATED PRESSJAKARTA, INDONESIA ASIA PACIFIC MAR 19, 2021 AstraZeneca’s vaccine against COVID-19 was cleared Friday for use in Indonesia after the drug regulator declared it safe and clerics in […]
Indonesia Starts Covid-19 Vaccination for Religious Leaders
Health worker injects a COVID-19 vaccine into a monk during the first phase of the nationwide Covid-19 vaccine campaign for religious leaders at Istiqlal Mosque in Central Jakarta on Feb […]
Vaccine solidarity now
Feb 24,2021 – JORDAN TIMES – Jose Manuel Barroso GENEVA — The arrival of the first COVID-19 vaccines in late 2020 brought fresh hope that the end of the pandemic […]
How Israel manipulates suffering of Palestinians
Jan 12,2021 – JORAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD Israel’s decision to exclude Palestinians from its COVID-19 vaccination campaign may have surprised many. Even by Israel’s poor humanitarian standards, denying Palestinians access to life-saving medication seems extremely callous. Amnesty International, among many organisations, condemned the Israeli government’s decision to bar Palestinians […]
Palestinians excluded from Israeli Covid vaccine rollout as jabs go to settlers
Human rights groups accuse Israel of dodging obligations to millions in occupied territories who may wait months for vaccination Vaccinations in progress in Ashdod, Israel last month. Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters […]
The European Medicine Agency to Decide About Moderna on Jan 6
The European Medicines Agency on Jan. 6 will be considering approving a second coronavirus vaccine, this one by Moderna, which has already been approved for use in the United States. […]
Nowhere to be seen
BY M A NIAZI Islamic countries showed up nowhere in responding to the pandemic AT PENPOINT One of the more interesting features of the world’s response to the covid-19 pandemic has been the extent to which it has confirmed Samuel Huntington’s 1992 thesis of a ‘clash of civilisations’. Huntington had […]
INDONESIA: Jokowi Decides Covid-19 Vaccine Is Free for All
BY :LENNY TRISTIA TAMBUN, NOVY LUMANAUW DECEMBER 16, 2020 Jakarta. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has decided that the Covid-19 vaccine would be free of charge for all Indonesians, amending the […]
FDA Panel Recommends Authorization of Pfizer BioNtech Vaccine
Epigraph Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) FDA advisers vote to recommend that the agency authorize […]
Coronavirus: Turkish Germans raise new Covid vaccine hopes
Prof Ugur Sahin (L) and Dr Özlem Türeci A Turkish-German husband-and-wife team have emerged as frontrunners in the race to market a vaccine against coronavirus, which would be an extraordinary […]
Swiss factory rushes to prepare for Moderna Covid-19 vaccine
Lonza is building three vaccine production lines in Visp, canton Valais, at a cost of $210 million (CHF191 million) to supply 300 million doses annually. Keystone / Olivier Maire Source: Swiss […]
Why we might not get a coronavirus vaccine
Politicians have become more cautious about immunisation prospects. They are right to be It would be hard to overstate the importance of developing a vaccine to Sars-CoV-2 – it’s seen […]