COVAX

World News

First EU-funded COVID-19 vaccines arrive in the Balkans

Most of the Balkan countries have struggled to obtain coronavirus vaccines, except for Serbia, which had launched a successful inoculation campaign mainly thanks to millions of doses of China's Sinopharm and Russia's Sputnik V shots.

04/05/2021

Kosovo

Kosovo receives first COVID-19 vaccines through Covax scheme

Kosovo said they had received 24,000 AstraZeneca vaccines, which will be used for medical personnel, elderly people and those with chronic diseases.

29/03/2021

World News

COVAX head 'disappointed' with slow vaccine exports to world's poorest

Doses for health care workers and other high-risk groups delivered through the COVAX programme will be set back weeks.

26/03/2021

World

Moldova’s vaccine rollout hampered by corruption, says president

Recently-elected President Maia Sandu told Euronews she has secured a donation of 200,000 doses from Romania and free access to 20% of Moldova's total vaccine needs through the global vaccine initiative COVAX. But corruption is hampering the rollout efforts.

19/03/2021

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Serbia sends vaccines to neighbour Bosnia, amid row over COVAX delays

The COVAX scheme has delivered millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine to African countries this week, but officials have admitted the scheme has gone slower than expected in certain areas.

02/03/2021

World News

UN Security Council adopts resolution demanding COVID ceasefire

The resolution "will help bring vaccines to 160 million people in conflict areas or displaced by conflict,'' says the council president.

26/02/2021

France

COVID-19 vaccines: Macron proposes sending 3-5% of supplies to Africa

In an interview with the Financial Times, the French President said he would put the idea to Friday's meeting of G7 leaders.

18/02/2021

World News

UN chief urges global plan to reverse unfair COVID-19 vaccine access

UN chief Antonio Guterres told a high-level meeting of the UN Security Council that 130 countries have not received a single dose of vaccine.

17/02/2021

My Europe Series

How poorer countries on the EU's fringes are still without vaccines

Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and the Republic of North Macedonia are among the countries still empty-handed.

12/02/2021

My Europe Series

What is COVAX and is it helping poor countries get access to vaccines?

Experts have criticised rich countries for buying up COVID-19 vaccine doses as poor countries are left without vaccines in a trend that has continued months after first doses became available.

08/02/2021

United Kingdom

How worried should you be about new COVID-19 variants?

Professor Danny Altmann, a professor of immunology at Imperial College London, explains why new coronavirus variants have emerged.

05/02/2021