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Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Exclusive

27:11 China and Sri Lanka have enjoyed a close relationship for decades. And with the pandemic still raging around the world, China is donating vaccines to Sri Lanka. 600,000 doses hav

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'Double mutant' variant emerging from India might be more contagious

01:22 A "double mutant" COVID-19 variant that emerged in India could bring about "increased transmissibility" or even "reduced neutralization" due to the specific mutations that it con

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Venezuela struggling to get COVID vaccines

03:02 Venezuela is struggling to acquire COVID-19 vaccines, as the number of cases in that country is hitting record levels. So far, Venezuela has acquired enough vaccines for just one

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More than 41 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in UK so far

FILE PHOTO: A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine in the UK. /VCG A total of 41,505,768 COVID-19 jabs have been given in the UK so far with close to 550,000 vaccines administered in a 24-hour pe

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Turkish study shows China's Sinovac vaccine 'significantly effective'

Hospital staff getting the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in Ankara, Turkey, January 14, 2021. /CFP China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine is significantly effective, said a Turkish health official based

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China's Ambassador in Somalia receives first shot of Sinopharm vaccine

Qin Jian (L), Chinese Ambassador to Somalia, and Somalia's Minister of Health and Human Services Fawziya Abikar Nur sign handover certificates of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China in Mogadishu,

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Kenya Navy conducts COVID-19 vaccination exercise to seafarers

VCG Kenya’s naval force has joined in government efforts against COVID-19 by conducting a vaccination exercise targeting seafarers.The Kenya Navy Medical team on Tuesday gave inoculations to s

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Johnson & Johnson vaccinations on hold

02:08 Johnson Johnson vaccines are on hold at vaccination centers across the U.S. on Tuesday after six women out of the almost seven million people inoculated developed rare blood clot

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Global manufacturing activity further expands in March: index

The global manufacturing sector expanded at a faster pace last month, according to an index published by the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP).The global manufacturing purchasing ma

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Philippines receives 2nd batch of purchased Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines

A second batch of 500,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines purchased from China arrived in the Philippines on Sunday.The Philippines has secured 25 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines developed by Sinovac Bi

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China administers 165m COVID-19 vaccine doses, second highest in world

01:41 China has administered 164.47 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of Saturday, becoming world's second most-vaccinated country, said Wu Liangyou, deputy directo

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China approves new COVID-19 vaccine for clinical trials

A staff member takes out samples of the COVID-19 inactivated vaccine at a vaccine production plant of China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) in Beijing, China, April 11, 2020. /Xinhua

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Third batch of China's Sinovac vaccine arrives in Thailand

00:33 The third batch of one million doses of COVID-19 vaccines ordered by Thailand from China's Sinovac arrived in Bangkok on Saturday. The first and second batches we

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Egypt to produce 80 million doses of China's Sinovac vaccine annually

Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed gives a press conference in Cairo, Egypt on January 24, 2021. /CFPEgypt on Thursday announced that it is to manufacture up to 80 mil

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Sinopharm, CoronaVac to be assessed between April 26, May 3: WHO

Chinese vaccines Sinopharm and CoronaVac (Sinovac) are in the final stage of evaluation by the Emergency Use Listing of the World Health Organization (WHO) and a "final decision" should be made betwe

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India to review COVID-19 vaccines after blood clot warning - report

A government panel of experts is investigating for any domestic cases of blood clotting, even mild ones, as a side effect of the two COVID-19 vaccines being administere

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WHO calls on major countries to solve COVID vaccine inequality

01:54 The head of the World Health Organization says major countries could solve vaccine inequality if they wanted to.He was taking part in a debate about the availability of coronavir