More than 100,000 people have died in the United Kingdom after contracting the coronavirus, figures from the government showed Tuesday. Britain is the fifth country in the world to record

Mauritius on Tuesday commenced a nationwide Covid-19 vaccination campaign, with medical staff at ENT hospital, the main treatment centre, being the first to be immunised. Three teams of health workers

The EU has warned it will tighten rules on exports of Covid vaccines, amid a row with AstraZeneca over a cut in planned supplies to the 27-member bloc. Health Commissioner

Moderna’s Covid vaccine appears to work against new, more infectious variants of the pandemic virus found in the UK and South Africa, say scientists from the US pharmaceutical company. Early

A group of Cuban medics, including five doctors and nine nurses, have arrived in Mozambique to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic. They will be stationed in hospitals in the capital,

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has tested positive for COVID-19, a development that comes as his country registers the highest levels of infections and deaths to date. López Obrador,

New Zealand has reported its first coronavirus case outside of a quarantine facility in more than two months, although there was no immediate evidence the virus was spreading in the

A major British doctors’ group says the UK government should “urgently review” its decision to give people a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine up to 12 weeks after

Japan is publicly adamant that it will stage its postponed Olympics this summer. But to pull it off, many believe the vaccination of its 127 million citizens for the coronavirus

Nigerian Nurses on Thursday warned that inadequate medical personnel could jeopardise the efforts of the federal and state governments to administer Covid-19 vaccines on Nigerians. They spoke just as the

Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) says the continent’s Covid-19 case fatality rate is now higher than the global average, describing the development as “worrying and concerning”.

As the US enters “what may well be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus,” President Joe Biden is putting forth a national Covid-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools

As President Donald Trump entered the final year of his term last January, the US recorded its first confirmed case of Covid-19. Not to worry, Trump insisted, his administration had

The head of the World Health Organization has criticised drugmakers’ profits and vaccine inequalities, saying it’s “not right” that younger, healthier adults in rich countries get vaccinated against Covid-19 before

Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire says one out of every five persons tested in the last one week turned out positive for Covid-19, noting that the ministry of finance has released

Emirates airline, along with dnata, are among the first transport and air services organisations in the world to offer employees the option to get vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus. The

Nigeria’s federal government has said it will strive to procure vaccines for at least 70% of its population. The government also said it has released N10 billion (about $25m) to

A nurse has received Brazil’s first vaccine dose after health regulators gave emergency approval to two jabs. Regulator Anvisa gave the green light to vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and China’s Sinovac,

The coronavirus was found on ice cream produced in eastern China, prompting a recall of cartons from the same batch, according to the government. The Daqiaodao Food Co., Ltd. in