China COVID-19: Chinese official says homegrown vaccines not very powerful Chinese vaccines "don’t have very high protection rates," said the director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, Gao Fu, at a conference Saturday. 11/04/2021
Finland Arrests across Europe as people flout or protest COVID-19 restrictions Police in Paris, France, have arrested nine people and issued more than 150 fines since the beginning of the weekend to people who clandestinely met in restaurants and bars. 11/04/2021
Germany Germany: Far-right AfD attempts to bridge rifts ahead of key election The AfD is holding a two-day congress this weekend ahead of Germany's September federal election, which will mark the end of Chancellor Angela Merkel's era. 10/04/2021
Japan COVID patient in Japan gets world's first living donor lung transplant After the woman was free of the virus, her lungs were no longer functional or treatable, and the only option for her to live was to receive a lung transplant. 10/04/2021
Europe EU received only half of AstraZeneca doses it was meant to this week AstraZeneca's deliveries to the European Union have been beset by delays. 09/04/2021
Europe EMA launches blood clots probe related to Johnson & Johnson vaccine It comes after the regulator said there was a possible link between very rare cases of blood clots and the AstraZeneca vaccine. 09/04/2021
state of the union Europe's week: AstraZeneca jab troubles and Turkey's diplomacy mistake The European Medicines Agency said the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine could potentially cause rare blood clots and Commission President von der Leyen got sidelined in Ankara. Here's a look at two key stories making the news in Brussels this week. 09/04/2021
France AstraZeneca: France says under 55s to receive different second dose France's health authority has recommended that adults under 55 who received a first dose of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine should receive a different vaccine for their second dose. 09/04/2021
world news Vaccination success sees Gibraltar enjoy life post-pandemic The British Overseas Territory has become one of the first places in the world to ease restrictions including outdoor mask wearing 08/04/2021
brussels bureau Turkey and Russia have highest incarceration rate, says report A new report by the Council of Europe shows that the median age of inmates is 36 years, with 95% being men and only 5% women. 08/04/2021
United Kingdom Lockdown and vaccine drive saw UK COVID cases drop 60%, says study The study by Imperial College London also found that the relationship between infections and deaths is diverging, "suggesting that infections may have resulted in fewer hospitalisations and deaths since the start of widespread vaccination". 08/04/2021
Serbia Serbia invites its neighbours over for a COVID vaccine It's been claimed the vaccines given to Serbia's neighbouring citizens were about to expire. Speaking to Euronews, the country's prime minister, Ana Brnabić, did not deny the allegation. 08/04/2021
World Has Europe’s largest ethnic minority been forgotten over COVID jabs? Slovakia is currently the only EU nation to recognise its Roma community as an at-risk group in its vaccination campaign despite Romani being more likely than the general population to suffer from cardiovascular diseases and other chronic diseases. 08/04/2021
India Modi gets second vaccine dose as India reports record COVID cases India’s prime minister received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as the country hit another peak Thursday with 126,789 new cases reported in the past 24 hours. 08/04/2021
