world news Pfizer-BioNTech seek EU approval of COVID vaccine for 12-15 year olds BioNTech/Pfizer said in March that its vaccine has proven to be 100% effective in youngsters aged 12 to 15. 30/04/2021
Europe News EU to vaccinate 70% of adult population by July, says Von der Leyen The European Commission president has announced that 70% of the adult population in the EU will receive at least one vaccine dose by July. 23/04/2021
Europe News EU to get an extra 50 million COVID vaccines by the end of June The European Commission chief said the total doses EU countries will receive from Pfizer will now be 250 million in the second quarter of this year. 14/04/2021
world news COVID vaccine: EU says it has exported 34m doses to over 30 countries The latest vaccine exports figures from the EU Commission come days after London and Brussels lobbed accusations of vaccine nationalism at each other. 11/03/2021
world news EU orders extra 4 million vaccine doses from Pfizer-BioNTech The extra doses will be delivered in the next two weeks as the bloc faces sharp criticism over the slow rollout of vaccinations. 11/03/2021
world news EU to receive 100m doses per month from April, says Von der Leyen European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told German newspapers that the bloc will receive 300 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines between April and June. 08/03/2021
France France's Sanofi to produce millions of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 jabs Sanofi is to produce as many as 12 million doses a month of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine once approved. It has also agreed to manufacture 125 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab. 22/02/2021
Europe News COVID- vaccine: EU to get extra 350 million doses in 2021 The 27-country bloc is now expected to receive 500 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech's vaccine this year. Enough to inoculate 250 million people. 17/02/2021
world news BioNTech/Pfizer pledges up to 75 million extra vaccine doses to EU COVID: BioNTech/Pfizer pledge up to 75 million extra vaccine doses to EU 01/02/2021
world news EU states ramp up vaccinations amid Pfizer delivery delay UK announces it has administered 4.6m vaccination doses. Meanwhile, Pfizer says that fewer doses will be available for European countries at the end of January and the beginning of February." 15/01/2021
world news EU's COVID-19 vaccine rollout suffering shortages and delays The shortage is being partly blamed on the fact that the European Medicines Agency is yet to approve the Moderna and Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccines. 01/01/2021
