Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government will distribute 100,000 yen ($880) in cash, vouchers or a combination of both to those 18 years or younger and make it a pillar of an economic stimulus package planned to be created by the end of the month, Nikkei has learned.ģ:16 p.m. South Korea has purchased an additional 30 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech's for 2022, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.ģ:51 p.m. Tourists are outside the scope of the latest move.Ĥ:30 p.m. For business people who are fully vaccinated, the mandatory self-isolation period will be cut to a minimum three days.
The country will lift the entry ban for business people, students and technical trainees. The Japanese government says it will reopen borders for business people and students, starting on Monday. President Joe Biden says that the U.S. has secured millions of doses of Pfizer's experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 in case it turns out to be an effective treatment.Ĥ:39 p.m. Shares of Merck, whose treatment was recently approved in the U.K., opened lower on the NYSE.ġ2:08 a.m. Pfizer shares opened higher on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday local time. "Today's news is a real game-changer in the global efforts to halt the devastation of this pandemic," CEO Albert Bourla said in a statement. drugmaker decided to halt the clinical trial early. Pfizer has announced that its Paxlovid oral antiviral reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% compared with a placebo in high-risk adults with COVID-19. 10, reports Reuters.ġ:05 a.m. British scientists have identified a version of a gene that may be associated with double the risk of lung failure from COVID-19, a finding that provides new insights into why some people are more susceptible than others to severe illness and which opens possibilities for targeted medicine, reports Reuters.Īround 60% of people with South Asian ancestry carry the high-risk version of the gene, according to researchers at Oxford University.ġ2:27 a.m. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he will convene a virtual meeting of foreign ministers from around the globe to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic on Nov. Distribution, duration, safety: challenges emerge in vaccine raceģ:38 a.m. U.S. Status of vaccinations around the world
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