カテゴリー: Vaccines and immunisation
Police in China and South Africa have seized thousands of fake doses of Covid-19 vaccinePolice in China and South Africa have seized thousands of fake doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, the global police organisation Interpol said on Wednesday, warning th…
The majority of the Pacific nation’s population won’t be immunised for another two years, government planning documents showCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDespite a tourism-dependent economy devastated by coronavirus shutdo…
While the UK and US strive for herd immunity, Russia and China are leveraging their Covid jabsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage“Today it is easier to get a nuclear weapon than to get a vaccine,” the Serbian president, Aleksan…
Plan to buy the BioNTech shot has been delayed amid intervention by ‘outside forces’, says health ministerCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA deal for Taiwan to buy 5m doses of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Germany’s BioNTec…
Vaccines also exempt from price caps in divisive move that health experts fear will deepen inequalityCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePakistan will allow private companies to import coronavirus vaccines and has exempted the v…
Schemes are in development from Sweden to China, but there are fears around transmission and social unrestCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt is the question being asked with increasing urgency around the world, at least in c…
Survey finds hesitancy related to trust in government, and more acute in younger peopleCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNearly four in ten people in France, more than 25% of those in the US and 23% in Germany say they definit…
Knightsbridge Circle offer is first evidence of Covid-19 vaccine being used to attract touristsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina’s Sinopharm vaccine is being offered to a handful of wealthy people paying for access to th…
Initial batches expected to arrive by end of March, with frontline workers and those most at risk to go firstThe Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has been provisionally approved for use in New Zealand, where the government will begin vaccinating frontline healt…
With a vaccine-hesitant public and jabs yet to begin, there are fears immunisations are off the paceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageJapan was among the first countries to report cases of Covid-19 after the world was alerted …
Low uptake fuelled by fears over safety of vaccine and spread of misinformation Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia’s Covid-19 vaccine drive has been hampered by turnout as low as 22% in some states, as fears over the safe…
India launches bid to vaccinate 300m people amid fears over efficacy of domestically produced vaccineEmerging from Holy Family hospital in New Delhi, Ram Verma, a sanitation worker, breathed a deep sigh of relief. As one of the first in India to receiv…
Country of 1.3 billion people hopes to vaccinate 300 million citizens by AugustCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia has begun one of the world’s biggest Covid-19 vaccination programmes, the first major developing country to…
Millions more expected to descend on Haridwar in coming weeks for Kumbh Mela despite pandemic Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageUp to a million Hindu pilgrims have gathered on the banks of the River Ganges in northern India, m…
Burst of optimism over approvals has been followed by delays, shortages and bureaucratic errorsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe global introduction of newly approved coronavirus vaccines has been marked by delays, shortag…