Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine meets prescribed success criteria in the clinical study, paving the way for the agency to green-light distribution as early as this weekend. Meanwhile, China’s Sinovac vaccine also announced to be 97 percent effective.

While provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, UK to administer the first dose of Pfizer's vaccine this week, dozens of COVID-19 vaccination centers opened in Moscow, scientists optimistic about COVID-19 vaccines for all.