Berlin: Germany plans to pay vaccine manufacturers an annual reservation fee to build up reserve capacity of 600-700 million doses per year to...
Berlin: Germany plans to pay vaccine manufacturers an annual reservation fee to build up reserve capacity of 600-700 million doses per year to...
SINGAPORE: Singapore will allow usage of the coronavirus vaccine of China's Sinovac Biotech under its special access route, the city-state said on Wednesday,...
Brussels: European Union governments agreed on Wednesday to add Japan to their small list of countries from which they will allow non-essential travel,...
HANOI: Vietnam's health minister said on Wednesday that Russia had agreed to provide it with 20 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine Sputnik...
DUBAI: Oman said on Wednesday it will allow Omanis and citizens of other Gulf countries to move across its land borders daily for...
BANGKOK: Drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Wednesday it would soon provide Thailand with 1.8 million doses of locally manufactured COVID-19 vaccine, the first of...
WARSAW: Poland will triple the number of guests allowed at large gatherings like weddings, the health minister said on Tuesday, as the country...
ZURICH: Moderna is gearing up to halve the dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, the U.S. drugmaker said on Wednesday, so that it can...
Kabul: Two separate bomb blasts on two public transport buses killed at least 12 civilians in the Afghan capital Kabul, security officials said...
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is planning to pledge an additional $800 million to the World Health Organisation's COVAX programme, which provides...
HANOI: Vietnam will resume incoming international flights to its capital Hanoi and business hub Ho Chi Minh City effective immediately, after a few...
Colombo: A cargo ship carrying tonnes of chemicals is sinking off Sri Lanka's west coast, the country's government and navy said on Wednesday,...
SYDNEY: Australia's Victoria state on Wednesday extended a snap COVID-19 lockdown for a second week in Melbourne in a bid to contain an...
Taipei: Germany's top diplomat in Taipei said his government has been helping in talks between Taiwan and drugmaker BioNTech SE to supply COVID-19...
QUITO: Ecuador this week launched a plan to vaccinate 9 million people against the novel coronavirus in 100 days, part of recently installed...
Tehran: The largest ship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances, semiofficial...
LONDON: Britain is in talks with Oxford and AstraZeneca for additional doses of their COVID-19 vaccine that has been modified to better target...
ANKARA - Turkey has announced new travel restrictions for passengers entering the country in a bid to curb the spread of the coronavirus...