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Austria will phase out AstraZeneca vaccine from its COVID-19 immunisation programme as a result of delivery problems and wariness among the population following reports of the vaccine’s rare side effects. The health minister, Wolfgang…

The Bayelsa government has announced the imposition of curfew from 8 pm to 6 am, daily, to prevent the spread of the new variant of COVID-19 in the state. Chief Ayibaina Duba, Commissioner for Information, Orientation and…

The head of UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency, has asked G7 countries to donate supplies of COVID-19 vaccines to the global COVAX sharing scheme as an emergency measure to address a severe shortfall caused by disruption to Indian…

Singapore warned that the COVID-19 variants, such as the one first detected in India, were affecting more children, as the city-state prepares to shut most schools from this week and draws up plans to vaccinate youngsters. The…

Taiwan, one of the world's COVID-19 mitigation success stories, scramble for vaccines as its stock of 300,000 doses starts running out with only about 1% of its 23 million people vaccinated. Taipei's de facto ambassador in the United…

UK has vaccinated over 20 million adults with two COVID-19 jabs on Sunday, just a day before restrictions are lifted across most of the country. Health Secretary, Matt Hancock said the vaccine programme had made extraordinary strides in…

India has reported 281,386 new COVID-19 infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths rose by 4,106 on Monday. The health ministry data showed that, the South Asian nation's total case load is 24.97 million with the death…

South Sudan is stuck with more than 126,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines due to low turn up as only 6,403 people have received COVID-19 doses since April when the vaccination started. COVID-19 Incident Manager in the Ministry of Health,…

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Saturday, destroyed various categories of harmful products worth about N515.7 million in Gombe. The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof. Christianah Adeyeye,…

The philippines hospital douses in five-hour blaze, treating COVID-19 patients. No casualties were reported in the fire at the government-run Philippine General Hospital in the capital, Manila. Firefighters put out the blaze…