Some 172 countries are engaging with the WHO-led COVAX plan designed to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organization...
The director of the Institut Pasteur Tunis, Hachemi Louzir said on Tuesday, August 18, 2020, that a medical team from the institute...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the world’s first vaccine against coronavirus has been registered in Russia. He stated via...
Early data from trials of three potential COVID-19 vaccines released on Monday, including a closely-watched candidate from Oxford University, increased confidence that...
China’s military has gained the green light to apply a COVID-19 vaccine competitor produced by its research unit and CanSino Biologics (6185.HK)...
Volunteers have started being immunised with a brand-new UK coronavirus vaccine. About 300 people will inject the vaccine over the upcoming weeks,...
France declared on that the world’s nations would have equal access to any novel coronavirus vaccine developed by pharmaceuticals giant Sanofi, a...
European Medicines Agency (EMA), the European Union agency responsible for the evaluation and supervision of medicines, estimated on Thursday that a coronavirus...
United Nations leaders called on Monday for a global effort to develop and distribute to all at affordable prices vaccines, treatments and...
President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday France would contribute 500 million euros ($550 million) to a global fund-raising push to finance research...
For COVID-19 patients battling for their lives in the ICU, a fugitive immune system response — known as a “cytokine storm” —...
Chief executive officer Albert Bourla on Tuesday said the clinical trials for its novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine are expected to start next...
A mass vaccination campaign against measles has been started in the Democratic Republic of Congo, local media announced on Monday. The vaccination...
The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford. Two volunteers were injected, the first of more...
A clinical test of a COVID-19 vaccine in Germany has been approved, the country’s Federal Institute for Vaccines has said. According to the independent nThis will...
Human trials of a potential vaccine for the coronavirus are set to begin in the U.K. later this week. British Health Minister...
The U.N. General Assembly has demanded global action to quickly scale up the development of and access to medicines, vaccines and equipment...
The head of a top Russian research centre reported to President Vladimir Putin that his lab was set to begin human trials of...
A small Pennsylvania biotech company is planning to start injecting healthy volunteers with a potential coronavirus vaccine this week, after having received regulatory clearance to start...
A potential coronavirus vaccine developed by US scientists has been discovered to generate antibodies able of fighting off COVID-19 in the first peer-reviewed study of its...
Pharmaceutical firm Sanofi is ready to provide French authorities with millions of doses of anti-malarial medication it said could potentially treat up...
The first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose on...