President Joe Biden will direct states to make all adults eligible for COVID-19 vaccines by May 1 and use his first primetime address to say he expects life to return c
With the introduction of vaccines, Africa hopes to slow down further spread of the virus and deaths. /VCG The number of COVID-19 infections in Africa is closing in on the four million mark as
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame receives his first jab of the COVID-19 vaccine at King Faisal Hospital, Kigali, Rwanda, 11 March, 2020. /Photo courtesy: Rwanda Presidency. Rwanda's President Pa
The Republic of the Congo took delivery of 100,000 doses of China-made Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday.Donated vaccines "prove that China remains alongside developing countries to fight CO
UNICEF, the world's single largest vaccine buyer, is part of the World Health Organization-backed COVAX programme to supply COVID-19 shots to emerging economies. /Xinhua The United Nations' ch
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 3,982,844 as of Wednesday noon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. /Africa CDC The number of
The European Commission says it has secured an agreement with Pfizer-BioNTech for an extra four million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for its 27 nations to tackle the surg
Mexico is turning to China to fill a COVID-19 vaccine shortfall with an order for 22 million doses, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday, a week after U.S. President Joe Biden ruled out sh
Zimbabwe has authorized the emergency use of four COVID-19 vaccines, including China's Sinovac and Sinopharm, Russia's Sputnik V and India's Covaxin, Zimbabwean Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa
India’s federal government on Tuesday denied any shortage of coronavirus vaccine doses in a big northwestern state and said it was sending supplies around the country b
Mexico is turning to China to fill a vaccine shortfall with an order for 22 million doses, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday, a week after U.S. President Joe Biden ruled out sharing
Ukrainian pharmaceutical company Lekhim - one of Sinovac's partners - has an agreement with the manufacturer to deliver 5 million doses of the vaccine in Ukraine, including 1.9 million via a stat
Sudan has launched a coronavirus vaccination roll-out, giving priority to medical workers, state news agency SUNA said. /VCG Sudan has launched a coronavirus vaccination roll-out, giving prior
Mexico will buy 22 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from China's Sinovac and Sinopharm, its Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday.Ebrard said the country will buy 10 million more doses of
The European Union may block further exports of some COVID-19 vaccines, following the Italian government's decision to block the export of 250,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, European
FILE PHOTO: A COVID-19 patient isolation center in Machacos town in eastern Kenya, on August 3, 2020. /VCG Africa has not been hit as hard by the COVID-19 pandemic as other continents because
Mutahi Kagwe, cabinet secretary in the Ministry of Health, inspects the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines upon the arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya on March 2, 2021