As Nigeria prepares to take delivery of Covid-19 vaccines by the end of January,  the  World Health Organization (WHO) announced Tuesday that it has authorised the vaccine made by Pfizer

A World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China. Two members had already set out

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the United States, a British judge ruled on Monday. At a hearing at London’s Old Bailey, Judge Vanessa Baraitser said she could

India’s drugs regulator on Sunday gave final approval for the emergency-use of two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and the other by local company Bharat Biotech

Veteran broadcaster Larry King has tested positive for coronavirus and is being treated at a hospital in Los Angeles, according to US media. Sources close to his family told ABC

Britain will allow people to be given shots of different Covid-19 vaccines on rare occasions, despite a lack of evidence about the extent of immunity offered by mixing doses. In

Britain reactivated emergency hospitals built at the start of the pandemic and shut primary schools in London on Friday to counter the rapid spread of a much more infectious variant

China has approved its first homegrown Covid-19 vaccine for general use, marking the addition of another vaccine in the global fight against the resurgent virus.  The two-dose vaccine from state-owned

A Chinese drugmaker says its coronavirus vaccine was found to be 79.3% effective at preventing infection, moving Beijing closer to possibly being able to fulfill its pledge to supply other

A recently elected US lawmaker has died from Covid-19 – the first member of the US Congress to die from the disease. Republican Luke Letlow, 41, had been elected as

The first reported US case of the highly-infectious Covid-19 variant that emerged in the UK has been confirmed in the state of Colorado. The patient, a man in his 20s

The Anap Foundation Covid-19 Think Tank, has called on the federal and state governments in Nigeria to “come up with a smart crisis management plan to address this second wave

Health authorities in France and Lebanon have confirmed their first cases of the coronavirus variant that prompted global travel restrictions and strict lockdown measures in the United Kingdom. The French

Mali’s opposition leader Soumaila Cisse, considered a leading contender in 2022 elections, has died in France after contracting coronavirus.  The 71-year-old died two months after his release from lengthy captivity by

Hong Kong extended a compulsory quarantine by an extra seven days to 21 days for all visitors outside China, effective Friday, in stepped-up efforts to prevent a new variant of

Morocco has commenced the implementation of the three weeks night curfew to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease. The curfew that begins at 9 pm and ends at 6