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Biden to direct states to make all adults eligible for vaccine by May 1

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

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Africa's COVID-19 caseload approaches 4 million mark

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

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Rwanda's Kagame receives first COVID-19 vaccine jab

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

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China's Sinopharm vaccine arrives in Republic of the Congo

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

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UNICEF chief: $1 billion more needed for COVAX COVID-19 jabs rollout

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

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Africa's confirmed COVID-19 infections pass 3.98 million

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

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EU gets more vaccines to target hard-hit borders

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

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Mexico leans on China to ease its COVID-19 vaccine shortages

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

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Zimbabwe authorizes Sinovac, Sinopharm vaccines for emergency use

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

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India, world's top vaccine maker, denies shortage at home

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

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Mexico leans on China after U.S. rules out jabs sharing in short term

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

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Ukraine approves China's Sinovac COVID-19 jabs

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

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Sudan rolls out COVID19 jabs campaign

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

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Mexico to buy 22 million doses of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine

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

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EU may block export of some COVID-19 vaccines for jab ramp-up

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

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Young population, experience cushioned Africa from pandemic severity

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

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Africa CDC chief commends China's vaccine support

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