International Affairs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Friday approved for emergency use a second COVID-19 vaccine.
The vaccine, from U.S. drugmaker Moderna, was developed with the National Institutes of Health. An advisory panel recommended the vaccine for approval late Thursday. The FDA approved Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine for emergency use earlier this month.
This is the first authorization for Moderna’s vaccine. The vaccine is similar to one from Pfizer Inc. and Germany’s BioNTech that’s now being dispensed to millions of health care workers and nursing home residents.
The two vaccines work “better than we almost dared to hope,” NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins told The Associated Press. “Science is working here; science has done something amazing.”
Now that the FDA has authorized use of Moderna’s vaccine, the U.S. drugmaker will begin transporting millions of doses for health workers and nursing home residents, and they could arrive Monday.
As the United States approves this second vaccine, the coronavirus crisis continues to take its toll. At least 313,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 as of Friday evening, the most in the world by far, according to Johns Hopkins University. Brazil ranked second in deaths, with close to 185,000.
Ambassador of Sri Lanka to China Dr Palitha Kohona has virtually assumed duties on Wednesday (16).
The Cabinet of Ministers approved a proposal made by Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardane to accept the BIMSTEC convention at the fifth summit of the BIMSTEC scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka next year.
Nearly two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been secured for equitable distribution in 2021 to the 190 countries that have signed on to a World Health Organization-led partnership, according to a Friday announcement from the group.
Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena speaking at the event this week
Pledges to remain committed to principles enshrined in UN Charter
Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha has called on Overseas Sri Lankans (OSLs) in the US to support economic promotion and strengthen advocacy of Sri Lanka.
The World Health Organization country office for Sri Lanka (WHO), with financial support worth EUR 2 million from the European Union (EU), will help improve emergency response capacities in Sri Lanka to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has withdrawn its $ 480 million compact offer to Sri Lanka.
ATLANTA - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday he told Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell during a phone call that although they disagree on “a lot of things, there are things we can work together on.”
While the first shots against COVID-19 are rolling out in the United States, Britain and Canada, nearly a quarter of the world's population likely will not have access to a vaccine until at least 2022, according to a new study.
As U.S. hospitals ramped up COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday with the first vaccine approved for emergency use, federal regulators issued a favorable review of a second vaccine needed to combat the country's worsening crisis.
A US panel of experts has voted to recommend the emergency approval of a second coronavirus vaccine.
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - A political delegation of the Afghan Taliban visited Pakistan Wednesday to discuss the Afghan peace process.
A new variant of coronavirus has been found which is growing faster in some parts of England, MPs have been told.
Google is being sued by 38 US states, accused of trying to make its search engine as dominant inside cars, TVs and speakers as it is in smartphones.
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ඇමරිකානු තානාපති කාර්යාල ප්රකාශිකා, නැන්සි වැන් හෝන් මහත්මිය Sunday Morning පුවත්පතට ප්රකාශ කර තිබෙන්නේ ලංකාව තවමත් මිලේනියම් චැලේන්ජ් කෝපරේෂන් හෙවත් MCC ව්යාපෘතියේ න්යාය පත්රයට ඇතුළත්ව පවතින බවයි .
Attorney General William Barr, one of President Donald Trump's staunchest allies, is resigning amid lingering tension with the president over the president's baseless claims of election fraud and the investigation into President-elect Joe Biden's son.
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