An advisory panel for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted unanimously Friday in favor of recommending a third coronavirus vaccine dose to 2.7 million people with weakened immune systems.The decision comes after the U.S. Food and D…
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Somalia Receives Johnson and Johnson Vaccines to Help Curb COVID 19
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia has received more than than 300,000 doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The doses, donated by the U.S. through the international COVAX facility, will be the first single-dose vaccines to be distributed in So…
Read moreTHE MALTA COMMUNITY CHEST FUND FOUNDATION: The Malta Community Chest Fund Foundation distributed around €14.2 million in aid in 2020
In 2020, the Malta Community Chest Fund Foundation (MCCFF) distributed €14,198,208 in aid to people in need while reducing its administrative costs by almost €200,000. In the same period, mainly due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it experienc…
Read moreTHE MINISTRY FOR ENERGY, ENTERPRISE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Assisting more industries in becoming sustainable
€3.6 million investment to convert construction machinery to more sustainable machinery Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Sustainable Development Miriam Dalli announced that through an investment of €3.6million, the construction industry can invest i…
Read moreTHE MINISTRY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE AND PLANNING AND BY THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARIAT FOR EUROPEAN FUNDS: €2.5 million EU project brings real-time marine data
The CALYPSO South Project observing systems were inaugurated today at Ghar Lapsi, close to the site of one of the radars, in the presence of Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Planning Aaron Farrugia and Parliamentary Secretary for Europe…
Read moreFauci Says COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shots Are ‘Inevitable’
Top U.S. infectious-disease expert Anthony Fauci said Thursday that vaccine booster shots were “inevitable” to provide additional protection against COVID-19, but added that the data indicated most healthy, vaccinated people didn’t need them now.During…
Read moreDelta Variant Surge Changing Attitudes About Getting Vaccinated
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – Stephen Feehily lives in a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, an area where, as in much of the American South, hesitancy to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been high. While his two sons are too young to get the shots, he reg…
Read moreHow Does FDA Approve Vaccines?
Three vaccines developed to prevent COVID-19 infections received emergency use authorization earlier this year, allowing nearly half the U.S. population to be fully vaccinated against the virus.But while much of the population remains skeptical of vacc…
Read moreIn Iran, Slow Vaccinations Fuel Anger in Unending Pandemic
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Iranians are suffering through yet another surge in the coronavirus pandemic — their country’s worst yet — and anger is growing at images of vaccinated Westerners without face masks on the internet or on TV while they rema…
Read moreTHE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT President visits Palazzo Falson in Mdina
President of Malta George Vella and Mrs Vella visited Palazzo Falson, a historic house museum in Mdina managed by Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti. They were greeted, shown around, and introduced to staff, interns, and volunteers by the Foundation’s Chief …
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