Vaccination

EU to double COVAX vaccine funding to 1 billion euros

The European Union's executive commission plans to double its contribution to the World Health Organization's COVAX program, bringing the 27-nation bloc's commitment to the initiative to deliver vaccines to poor nations to ...

Vaccination

EU divided over 'vaccine passports'

EU countries are increasingly looking at using proof of COVID-19 inoculation as a "vaccine passport" but the idea is divisive.

Vaccination

Vaccine production must catch up to science: EU chief

Europe's race to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines must accelerate to catch up to scientific breakthroughs and outpace emerging variants, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

EU agrees new coronavirus travel curbs

EU member state ambassadors approved a new map of coronavirus danger zones across the bloc on Friday, allowing authorities to impose stricter regional travel restrictions.

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Icelanders get Covid vaccine 'passports'

Iceland has issued its first vaccination certificates to ease international travel for those inoculated against COVID-19, authorities told AFP on Tuesday, with EU countries still haggling over using such documents.

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Britain ahead of entire EU on vaccines

Britain has vaccinated more people against COVID-19 than the 27-nation European Union put together, according to an AFP tally on Wednesday.

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EU agency authorizes Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine

The European Union's medicines agency gave the green light Wednesday to Moderna Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine, a decision that gives the 27-nation bloc a second vaccine to use in the desperate battle to tame the virus rampaging ...

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