02:21 Some 100 experts and scholars attended a human rights seminar on issues linked to COVID-19 in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Tuesday.Organizers said they hope the sem
Zimbabwean officials inspect a shipment of the Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines at Harare International Airport on March 16, 2021 in Harare, Zimbabwe. (Photo by Tafadzwa Ufumeli / Getty Images)
VCG Botswana will roll out the administration of second doses of COVID-19 vaccines on Tuesday, starting with persons who received the Chinese-manufactured Sinovac vaccine, the government annou
Israel has started vaccinating teenagers aged between 12 and 15 against the novel coronavirus, health authorities said on Sunday.This follows a decision taken by the Is
FILE PHOTO: Boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine provided through the global COVAX initiative arrive at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia Monday, March 15, 2021. (Farah Abdi Warsameh via VCG)
FILE PHOTO: Elderly people receiving the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, in Pisa, Italy. /VCG Italy on Friday administered a new record number of daily COVID-19 vaccinations, according to
Russian President Vladimir Putin has slammed the ban on Russian COVID-19 vaccines imposed by some countries despite the shots proving their efficacy, stressing that such restrictions are absurd and p
President Bashar al-Assad was among those to be vaccinated after Syria received a first shipment of Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, Russia's Interfax news agency re
The World Health Organization has approved Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use. /CFPThe Gavi vaccine alliance is in talks with Chinese drugmaker Sinovac Biotec
US President Joe Biden. /Getty Images The Biden administration is accelerating efforts to administer at least one jab of a COVID-19 vaccine to 70 percent of the US' adult population by July 4,
04:18 Native American tribes across the U.S. are celebrating a vaccination success story in the battle against COVID-19.Despite being among the hardest hit, about 70 percent of the coun
VCG France plans to start vaccinating its youth aged 12 and 18 from June 15, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Wednesday.Macron made the announcement during his visit to the village of Sa
The World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. /Getty Images The World Health Organization (WHO) has joined other partners in calling upon governments to finance a
VCG Rwanda's COVID-19 mass vaccination drive has received another boost after the country received a batch of 100,600 doses of COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine through the World Health Organization's C
02:33 Mexico is about to begin Phase-3 testing of another COVID-19 vaccine from China.The shot is made by Walvax Biotechnology, and it uses messenger RNA technology.CGTN’s Franc Contrer
The United Kingdom has recorded another six coronavirus-related deaths as more than 25 million people have now received two vaccine doses, latest government figures show. /Xinhua The United Ki
Britain reported 3,398 new cases of COVID-19, down from a two-month high of 4,182 cases recorded a day earlier, government statistics showed on Saturday, with seven new deaths within 28 days of a