Vaccination

Worst-hit US launches virus vaccine shipments

Trucks on Sunday began shipping millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, part of an enormous logistics operation that should see some vulnerable people being vaccinated as early as Monday in the nation ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

India starts booster shots for vulnerable amid omicron surge

Healthcare and front-line workers along with people above age 60 with health problems lined up Monday at vaccination centers across India to receive a third dose as infections linked to the omicron variant surge.

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

EU urges second COVID-19 boosters for people ages 60 to 79

The European Union said Monday it's "critical" that authorities in the 27-nation bloc consider giving second coronavirus booster shots to people between the ages of 60 and 79 years and other vulnerable people, as a new wave ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

COVID-19: We will be measured by how we support the vulnerable

In a century where the number of urban crises affecting cities around the world has risen, western cities have, for the most part, remained relatively unscathed by pandemics. But with more than half the world's population ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

US awaits word on 2nd vaccine as COVID-19 outbreak worsens

The U.S. stood on the verge of adding a second COVID-19 vaccine to its arsenal Friday as the outbreak descended deeper into its most lethal phase yet, with the nation regularly recording over 3,000 deaths per day.

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