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Given the uncertainty and the arrival of more contagious variants, experts say fully vaccinated people should continue to wear masks and social distance in public and when visiting with unvaccinated people at high risk

Last week, I made an urgent request to countries, with doses of COVID-19 vaccines that have WHO Emergency Use Listing, to share 10 million doses immediately with COVAX, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said

The National Advisory Committee on Immunization had recommended the pause for safety reasons and the Canadian provinces, which administer health in the country, announced the suspension Monday

A UNICEF spokeswoman says deliveries of SII/AZ vaccine are expected to begin fully again by May, with catch-up deliveries to reach every participant's full allocation up to May, accelerating thereafter

Gates, a billionaire who stepped down as chairman of Microsoft Corp in 2014, has through his philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation committed at least $1.75 billion to the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic

SII has signed an agreement with Novavax to manufacture a vaccine with the name 'Covovax' in India. Novavax has announced final efficacy of 96.4 per cent against original COVID-19 virus. Novavax with Serum will provide 1.1 billion cumulative doses for COVAX Facility

India was one of the initiators of the 'Political Declaration on Equitable Global Access to COVID-19 Vaccines' that garnered the support of more than 180 UN member states

The 200,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, announced as a gift by India for UN peacekeepers, left Mumbai in the early hours of Saturday and will arrive at Copenhagen, Denmark

SII is manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines for India as well as 64 low-income countries. The vaccines produced by the company are to be delivered via Covax facility to these nations

Stressing that the pandemic has been an \"incredible tragedy\", the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist has heightened hopes that the virus could be brought to bay across the world in less than two years

The move will also affect supplies to the GAVI/WHO-backed global COVAX vaccine-sharing facility, through which 64 lower-income countries are supposed to get doses from SII, the programme's procurement and distributing partner UNICEF said

Dmitry Peskov said the president would get the vaccine out of the public eye because when it comes to getting vaccinated on camera, he has never supported that, he doesn't like that

The Biden administration revealed the outlines of a plan to 'loan' a limited number of vaccines to Canada and Mexico as the president announced the U.S. is on the cusp of meeting his 100-day injection goal 'way ahead of schedule'

Germany resumed administering AstraZeneca vaccine from Friday morning, while French Prime Minister Jean Castex said he would seek to promote a similar resumption in his country by getting the shot himself on Friday. Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Spain and Canada also gave their backing to vaccine

The Biden administration has come under pressure from countries around the world to share vaccines, particularly its stock of AstraZeneca's vaccine, which is authorized for use elsewhere but not yet in the United States

The original ACT-Accelerator investment case published in September 2020 had outlined a total requirement of US$ 38.1 billion to fully fund its work for 2020-21, but so far could mobilise only US$11 billion

After holding the first Leaders' Summit of Quadrilateral alliance on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Joe Biden, Australian PM Scott Morrison and Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga wrote a opinion piece in The Washington Post

It is the third COVID-19 vaccine after the two-shot regimens of Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca to receive backing from the WHO, and the first requiring just a single injection