This information is regularly updated but may not reflect the latest totals for each country. Total vaccinations refers to the number of doses given, not the number of people vaccinated. It is possible to have more than 100 doses per 100 population as some vaccines require two doses per person.
Source: Our World in Data, ONS, gov.uk dashboard
Last updated: 10 May 2021, 13:03 BST
RNA-based therapies have sometimes been described as programmable medicines, so perhaps it’s not too surprising that a biotech company would adapt techniques and processes from the tech industry to develop and manufacture messenger RNA drugs. Nutcracker Therapeutics, a biotech company whose approach to mRNA medicines borrows from the semiconductor industry, has raised $167 million to […]
Getty Images The new coronavirus variant Omicron has now become dominant in South Africa and is driving a sharp increase in new infections, health officials say. Some 11,500 new Covid infections were registered in the latest daily figures. That is a sharp rise on the 8,500 cases confirmed the previous day. By contrast, daily infections […]
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