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Malaysian PM receives COVID-19 vaccine

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on Wednesday received a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer-BioNTech, becoming the first person to be vaccinated in the country.

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Beijing on schedule for mass COVID-19 vaccination

00:22 A mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign is being rolled out across various districts in Beijing.The current vaccination campaign covers people aged 18 to 59.The Chin

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Equatorial Guinean president gets first dose of Chinese COVID vaccine

Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo on Monday received his first dose of a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's pharmaceutical firm Sinopharm, according to the officia

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Mexico to lower virus alert level in many states

Mexico is reducing its COVID-19 alert level in about half of the country’s states amid a drop in infections and hospitalizations in many places, including the capital.M

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Peru's interim president has received his first COVID-19 shot

01:54 On Tuesday,Peru's caretaker president Francisco Sagasti was vaccinated against COVID-19 after the country began its inoculation program after receiving its shipment of vaccines f

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Over 800,000 medics in Indonesia receive Chinese COVID-19 vaccines

A total of 811,000 health workers in Indonesia have received the first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech as of Monday, Health Minister Budi G

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President Sagasti first Peruvian to get Chinese COVID-19 shot

Peruvian President Francisco Sagasti gives a televised message to the nation at the Government Palace in Lima, Peru, January 6, 2021. /CFPPeruvian President Francisco S

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Many still hesitant in taking COVID-19 shot

02:33 TheCOVID-19vaccineprovides hope that the world can soon return to a sense of normality,but that can only happen if a large majority of the world’s population gets vaccinated.Whil

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Two million doses of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine arrive in Chile

Two million doses of COVID-19 vaccine developed by Sinovac, a Chinese biopharmaceutical company, arrived in Santiago, capital of Chile on Thursday.Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, Health Minister

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Israel extends virus shots to those 35 and older

Israel on Thursday said it was extending coronavirus vaccinations to adults age 35 and older, an expansion of its world-leading drive to vanquish COVID-19.Health Minist

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Super Bowl: 22,000 tickets, free entry to 7,500 healthcare workers

Cutout photos of people, including first responders and healthcare workers, sit in seats in Gillette Stadium before an NFL football game between the New England Patriots and the Buffalo Bills in

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Brazil starts to roll out COVID-19 vaccine

(Scroll to the right to see more)Brazil starts to roll out COVID-19 vaccine shortly after the country's health regulator Anvisa approved emergency use of China's Sinovac

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President Erdogan gets his first shot of the COVID-19 Sinovac vaccine

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan receives the first shot of his COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday in Ankara, Turkey. /Photo courtesy: Recep Tayyip Erdogan - Twitter Turkey's President Recep

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Coronavirus: Russia gives jabs to over 800,000

Over 800,000 people in Russia have been vaccinated as at now against coronavirus and more than 1.5 million vaccine doses have been dispatched, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Saturday. /

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US COVID-19 cases tops 20 million mark

The number of confirmed U.S. coronavirus cases has surpassed 20 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. /Getty Images The number of confirmed U.S. coronavirus cases has surpa

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U.S. vaccine rollout too slow, many say

00:59 The United States has so far vaccinated about 2.8 million people against COVID-19, which is about .84 people for every 100. Many say at that rate, it will take years to protect t

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets COVID-19 vaccine

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday received his COVID-19 vaccine jab in public to start the rollout of the country's vaccination exercise.Netanyahu's vaccination was broadcasted on