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British doctors seek review of gap between Pfizer vaccine doses

Doctors at the British Medical Association are calling for a review of the UK's 12-week gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer COVID vaccine.

World News

EU vaccine delays dog effort to speed up COVID inoculations

Delays to vaccine deliveries from AstraZeneca and Pfizer have raised concerns about the EU's vaccination timeline.

Serbia

China marches to Serbia's aid as EU's vaccine scheme fails to deliver

While the whole region was waiting to get at least some vaccines from the COVAX scheme, a plane from China landed in Belgrade with a million doses on board.

My Europe Series

Has the EU's vaccine rollout lost Brussels support in poorer nations?

Edi Rama, PM of EU hopeful Albania, has already hit out at Brussels over its "morally and politically unacceptable" vaccine rollout.

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Salisbury Cathedral becomes hub for huge COVID-19 vaccination drive

Melding the ornate trappings of medieval faith with 21st century science, Salisbury Cathedral is injecting new hope into Britain's biggest ever vaccination programme.

World

European Medicines Agency an WHO advise against delaying second shot

International organisations are calling any breaks between the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine doses not to be extended beyond 21 days. Both Pfizer and Moderna also do not support the delay strategy touted by UK authorities.

France

French health minister says third national lockdown could be necessary

"If the level of this variant were to increase significantly and we followed an English trajectory, a lockdown would probably become an absolute necessity," Véran told the French Senate's Law Commission.

Cuba

Cuba aims to immunise its population this year with its own vaccine

Cuba wants to produce 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine this year, which would be the first developed in Latin America.

Destinations

Tourists in Bali are being made to do push-ups for not wearing masks

Police have been filmed stopping tourists in the street and making them do push-ups.

World News

Euroviews. The EU must prevent the COVID vaccine roll-out creating two-tier societies ǀ View

Regardless of how keen governments are to roll out the vaccine, it’s likely that some groups in society will be slower to receive it, leading to unequal access and curtailed freedoms.

Israel

Israel's COVID vaccination rollout is leaving Palestinians behind

The World Health Organization has raised "concerns" about the unequal distribution of coronavirus vaccines in the country.

Europe News

At least 80% of priority groups should be vaccinated by March, EU says

"We can soon start to see the beginning of the end of the pandemic," said health commissioner Stella Kyriakides in a statement.

United Kingdom

One in eight in England had had COVID-19 by December, new data shows

According to the ONS, 12.7 per cent of the population in England would have tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies by the end of 2020.

My Europe Series

Why do so few people in France want to take the COVID-19 vaccine?

Just 40% of French people say they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if available, making the country one of the most vaccine-hesitant in the world.

World News

'Catastrophic moral failure': WHO chief slams COVID vaccine rollout

The WHO director-general said rich countries buying up all the doses of COVID vaccines was a "catastrophic moral failure".

Switzerland

Coronavirus: WHO against vaccine passports 'for the time being'

The agency's emergency committee said there were still "too many fundamental unknowns" about the effectiveness of vaccines.

Norway

Norway reports COVID-19 vaccine deaths in elderly and frail people

The Norwegian Medicines Agency told Euronews it expected to see some deaths linked to vaccinations within nursing homes but noted that fatalities were “very, very rare”.

World

From factory to arm, the logistics of rolling out the AstraZeneca jab

The pace of the UK's vaccine rollout was ramped up this week with the opening of seven new mass vaccination centres

Brazil

'We're super tired of this war': Life on Brazil's COVID-19 frontline

Euronews was given access to a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, the city with the highest per capita coronavirus death rate in the country.

Europe News

'We bought as much as we were offered,' says EU amid rollout criticism

Amid rising criticism of a slow approach to immunisation, the EU defended its vaccine strategy in front of MEPs. The Commission's vaccine negotiator said that vaccinations are expected to ramp up from April and that no member state 'should be left behind'.