BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian health regulator Anvisa said on Thursday that it still needs further documentation before it can approve an emergency use request for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca PLC and China Sinovac Biotech.
Anvisa has scheduled a meeting for Sunday to decide on fast track approval that will allow vaccinations to take place in Brazil next week.
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Karachi: Dubai Islamic Bank Limited (DIBL) and EMAAR Karachi Ltd signed an agreement to promote Home Financing for their current and future projects.
With this agreement, Dubai Islamic Bank will offer financing facilities to individual clients for fully built & ready to move apartments in Coral, Pearl and Reef Towers in Crescent Bay EMAAR, Karachi. In addition, off-plan financing will also be offered on future projects and the provision of corporate banking solutions to EMAAR and its contractors.
The Bank is also aggressively working with all Real Estate industry stakeholders to actively promote the Government’s vision of promoting Home Finance in the country.
The agreement was signed between Mr. Junaid Ahmed, CEO of Dubai Islamic Bank and Mr. Sohail Baig CEO, EMAAR Pakistan. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Junaid Ahmed CEO, Dubai Islamic Bank said “We are very pleased to partner with EMAAR Pakistan for our Home Finance products. The bank is working aggressively within the vision of the Government and the State Bank of Pakistan to promote home finance in the country. We are working in various areas of the Real Estate delivery chain to develop strong and seamless partnerships for fast payments to end customers. ****
Showing solidarity with the Hazara community after the Machh massacre, Pak Sarzameen’s party announced a postponement of Sunday’s protests against the approval of the federal government’s controversial census results.
The party directed its workers and supporters to attend sit-in protests staged by Hazara communities across the country. In a statement issued by the Pakistan House on Friday, the party said a new date for pending protests against controversial census approval would be announced soon.
“All PSP workers share their sorrow with the Hazara community,” said a party statement. PSP also demanded Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan to immediately contact Quetta and file a complaint with the victim’s family.
Last week, PSP announced a January 10 rally against the federal cabinet’s approval of the 2017 ‘controversial’ census results. PSP chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal has made the announcement at a press conference, saying that Karachi, the economic lifeline and home to all the country’s sub-nationalities , is being subdued by the worst hostilities by the government in both the province and the federation.
PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) – The UK is the first country in the world to approve the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is currently being tested at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.
Local researchers told FOX 12 that they had just completed their registration phase with Oregon people. For Dr. Marcel Curlin, lead investigator of the OHSU study, said the rapid timeline and vaccine success in the UK is significant.
“You have that kind of collaboration across medical disciplines that you rarely see, so, both on a personal and professional level and also from a scientific perspective and a health care perspective, this is absolutely incredible,” Curlin told FOX. 12 Wednesday.
While the UK agreement doesn’t give the green light in the United States, Curlin says that’s a good sign.
“Before it is available to the public, it will go through the FDA process, which is an independent and separate review process. It will take a little longer. But coming against the background it has been approved in the UK is just good news,” Curlin said.
For participants who unwittingly received a placebo during clinical trials, Curlin said they would not miss the opportunity to receive the vaccine when it is available to the general public. There is no widely accessible version of the vaccine yet.
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“If your doctor says to you, ‘Hey, we have a vaccine available now. We have Pfizer, or we have Moderna, or we have AstraZeneca or Jansen. Would you like to be vaccinated?’ And you have to make that decision. You have to make that decision knowing what’s going on in this study. So at that point, you’re not blind, and you can have an intelligent decision-making process with your doctor about what to do, ” said Curlin.
OHSU initially hoped to enroll hundreds of Oregon residents in the trial, and more than 13,000 people expressed interest.
But due to the fast-moving nature of the pandemic and the timeframe available to them, an OHSU spokesman said they could only enroll up to 300 people in trials.
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The agreement between the EU and the UK is good news for Polish businessmen and citizens and will limit the negative effects of Brexit, Polish European Affairs Minister Konrad Szymanski told PAP.
Szymanski said that from the very beginning Poland was pursuing constructive and persistent EU action on this issue.
“The deal will limit the negative impact of Brexit. This applies to producers of industrial and agribusiness goods. The agreement provides special facilitation, for example for the automotive, pharmaceutical and organic agricultural products sectors. We take care of taking into account the interests of the transport sector, which is very important for Poland. Carriers will have unrestricted point-to-point access between the EU and UK and full transit rights through their respective territories. Cabotage operations will also be possible to some extent, “the minister told PAP.
Szymanski added that the agreement would significantly reduce the cost of the British economy leaving the European Union. “This will maintain access to the UK market for Polish exporters who in 2019 sold goods in the UK for a total of PLN 61 billion (EUR 13.4 billion). Broad agreement on the coordination of social benefits will be important for the social security of Polish citizens,” he said.
He also said that the agreement will allow for the stabilization and development of political relations between the UK and the EU, which is important for reducing the political costs of Brexit.
The meeting of the EU ambassadors on an EU-UK deal after Brexit is held on Friday in Brussels. Michel Barnier, EU chief negotiator, presented the results of the negotiations. Polish Ambassador Andrzej Sados thanked Barnier for the work on the agreement but added that Poland still needed to know the details.
On Thursday, the UK and EU signed a mutual relations agreement which will become binding after the end of the post-Brexit transition period. As a result, from the new year onwards, there will be no tariffs or other disruptions to trade between the EU and UK.
The process for Britain leaving the European Union started exactly 1,646 days ago, when 52 percent of British citizens voted to leave the Union in a referendum. During this period, the prime minister changed two times and the date of exit was postponed twice. Britain officially left the EU on January 31, 2020, but until the end of the transition period, December 31 this year, it is still bound by EU regulations.
