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Johnson & Johnson's booster dose of coronavirus vaccine provides fewer antibodies than Pfizer and Moderna, CNBC reported.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has no complaints about the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine itself, there were only organizational issues, said the head of the Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko.

About 260 people received doses of the expired Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in the French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, according to radio station France Bleu.

The University of Graz, Austria, mistakenly indicated the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine as permitted for admitting students vaccinated by it to classes, a representative of the university Gerhild Leljak told RIA Novosti.

Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine has been shown to be safe and effective for children aged 5 to 11, the company said in a statement.

After the appearance of the delta strain, the tactics and strategy of vaccination against coronavirus have changed, said Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Research Center.

The World Health Organization will give its assessment of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine when it receives all the necessary documents from Russia, the WHO said.

More than 6,600 reports of possible side effects of COVID-19 vaccines have been reported in Switzerland, the country's Federal Public Health Office said on Friday.

Mutual recognition of coronavirus vaccines by countries is a matter of this year, said Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).

The results of an independent study carried out by scientists from St. Petersburg confirm that the Russian Sputnik V vaccine is good against the delta variant of the coronavirus and effectively protects against the severe form of COVID-19.

The pharmaceutical industry did not immediately switch to the development of a drug for the treatment of coronavirus, since everyone assumed that COVID-19 was a seasonal infection.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has warned of the risk of immunoglobulin deficiency in Russia.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) does not have sufficient data on the safety of the Russian vaccine against the Sputnik V coronavirus, said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

The European Commission recognizes the vaccination certificates issued in San Marino, now they will be valid throughout the European Union and in the Schengen countries.

The World Health Organization has called for measures to curb the spread of e-cigarettes, including health labeling, according to the eighth WHO report on the dangers of tobacco released on Tuesday.