Now playing Next United Kingdom COVID-19: G7 leaders boost vaccine commitment to poorer countries Both the EU and the US announced on Friday that they will double their funding to the World Health Organisation's COVAX programme to €1bn and €3.3bn respectively. 19/02/2021
Now playing Next 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
Now playing Next 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
Now playing Next 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
Now playing Next Japan Japan begins COVID-19 vaccination drive amid Olympic worries The late rollout will make it impossible to reach so-called "herd immunity" against the virus before the Olympics begin in July, experts say. 17/02/2021
Now playing Next world news AstraZeneca vaccine gets emergency approval from WHO The green light for the AstraZeneca vaccine is only the second one the U.N. health agency has issued after authorizing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in December. 15/02/2021
Now playing Next world news Europe disease prevention agency backs COVID-19 vaccine certificates The ECDC ruled out so-called 'vaccine passports' that would allow holders to ignore rules on quarantine and testing. 15/02/2021
Now playing Next United Kingdom 15m in the UK have had their first COVID jab - how about wider Europe? The British government says the majority of the top four most vulnerable groups have had or been offered a first dose. But other European countries are doing better in terms of full vaccinations. 14/02/2021
Now playing Next United Kingdom Oxford/AstraZeneca to begin COVID vaccine trials on children Pfizer and Moderna began trialling their vaccines on children as young as 12 last year, while AstraZeneca will be expanding the age group further. 13/02/2021
Now playing Next France French authorities back single jab for people who have had COVID-19 France's High Authority for Health said that as people who have previously contracted COVID-19 retain "an immune memory", a single dose of vaccine "will thus act as a booster." 12/02/2021
Now playing Next World Portugal urged to extend its national COVID-19 lockdown until Easter A study suggested that sticking with the lockdown, and keeping schools closed, through the end of March would bring down the number of COVID-19 intensive care unit patients to around 300. 11/02/2021
Now playing Next world news Six ex-Soviet states get €40m to help their COVID-19 vaccine rollout The joint €40 million programme will involve Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova. 11/02/2021
Now playing Next World Holidays in UK and Europe: is it worth making plans? Sean Tipton, a spokesman for travel association ABTA, says he thinks things are slowly improving. 11/02/2021
Now playing Next Europe News Von der Leyen defends EU vaccine plan but admits mistakes over Ireland Speaking before the European Parliament, the President of the European Commission said the EU's common vaccine strategy was the right thing to do in the name of European solidarity. 10/02/2021
Now playing Next United Kingdom COVID-19: England & Wales saw second-highest weekly deaths in January The Office for National Statistics revealed that 8,433 deaths registered in the week ending January 29 mentioned "novel coronavirus (COVID-19)" — the second-highest weekly figure since the beginning of the pandemic. 09/02/2021
Now playing Next World Cloth masks factories pushed to make safer surgical masks in Portugal Companies in Portugal were quick to start making cloth masks when the pandemic began last year. Now new regulations have come into place in some of their biggest markets, driving business towards safer surgical masks. 09/02/2021
Now playing Next world news COVID-19: Ukraine set to launch coronavirus vaccination programme The EU called on member states to help Ukraine as it plans its vaccinations programme. 08/02/2021
Now playing Next world news WHO: Vaccine manufacturers will have to adjust vaccines to variants The emergence of new coronavirus variants means vaccine manufacturers need to be ready to adjust vaccines to the "evolution of the virus", the WHO chief said. 08/02/2021
Now playing Next Uncovering Europe 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
Now playing Next World COVID round-up: UK hits 12 million jabs; Hungary approves Sputnik V As the EU starts to rollout the AstraZeneca vaccine, there's concern over its effectiveness on new coronavirus variants. 08/02/2021