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An illustration picture shows vials with Covid-19 Vaccine stickers attached, and syringes, with a flag of the European Union, on November 17, 2020. (AFP)

Poorer and developing nations face vaccine wait as West locks down...

Based on advance purchase agreements signed with Pfizer, it is calculated that 1.1 billion doses had been snapped up by...

18 Nov 2020 5:43 AM GMT

US President Donald Trump arrives at Wilmington International Airport in Wilmington, North Carolina. (AFP)

US cuts remaining dues payment to WHO after Trump pullout

However, US will continue to participate in select WHO technical and policy meetings that have a direct bearing on the...

3 Sep 2020 7:30 AM GMT

Some nations have worked directly to secure supplies of vaccine, but others are pooling efforts to ensure success. The Trump administration said that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine. (Representational Image:AP)

US will not join global effort to find and distribute COVID-19 vaccine

The decision to go it alone follows the White House's decision in early July to pull the United States out of the WHO

2 Sep 2020 4:59 AM GMT

A health worker holds the used vials of Covishield vaccine during a special vaccination drive in the outskirts of Jammu. (Photo: PTI)

India could ship vaccines to COVAX in a few weeks, say sources

WHO, which co-leads COVAX, has been urging India to restart supplies for the programme

9 Nov 2021 7:01 AM GMT

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. The German government says specialist labs in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. (AP File)

Navalny, Thunberg among nominees for Nobel Peace Prize

Other nominees include former U.S. President Donald Trump, NATO and the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR)

31 Jan 2021 5:55 PM GMT

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event with the CEOs of Johnson & Johnson and Merck at the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building March 10, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden announced that the government will purchase 100 million more doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

US will share COVID-19 vaccine if it has surplus: Biden

We are going to start off making sure Americans are taken care of first but we are then going to try to help the rest of...

11 March 2021 5:07 AM GMT

Employees packing boxes with COVID-19 vaccine at the packaging and dispatch department in Pune, Maharashtra. (Photo: World Health Organisation)

WHO reminds Serum Institute of its COVAX commitments amidst soaring...

Earlier this month, Adar Poonawalla said it was not possible to ramp up production overnight

18 May 2021 5:48 AM GMT

A health worker inoculates a man with a dose of the Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus during a vaccination drive at a school in Hyderabad. (Noah SEELAM / AFP)

India's drug regulator approves study on mixing of Covaxin and...

An expert panel of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation on July 29 had recommended granting permission for...

11 Aug 2021 6:06 AM GMT