Vaccination

Colombia 1st in Americas to get vaccines from UN program

Colombia on Monday became the first country in the Americas to receive a shipment of coronavirus vaccines from the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative, a program meant to ensure that the world's most vulnerable people ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

UK opens quarantine hotels, pushes on with vaccine drive

Britain's newly established quarantine hotels received their first guests on Monday as the government tries to prevent new coronavirus variants from derailing its fast-moving vaccination drive.

Vaccination

Covax issues distribution list for first vaccine wave

The Covax programme to ensure equitable worldwide access to COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday published its first distribution list, with enough doses for countries to immunise more than three percent of their populations by ...

Vaccination

Next major pandemic hurdle: Persuading people to get vaccinated

Today, more Americans hope to receive a COVID-19 vaccine than current vaccine supply will allow. Consequently, although President Joe Biden's initial promise to dole out 100 million vaccine doses in 100 days would require ...

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