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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.