• 11:25 am

    Turkey says it will begin process of easing lockdown measures in March

  • 11:02 am

    Study finds Covid-19 pandemic has added Ksh2.4 quadrillion ($2.4b) to the global debt mountain over the last year

  • 10:43 am

    South Africa, Brazil Covid-19 strains detected in India

  • 10:19 am

    Japan kicks off Covid-19 vaccine drive with healthcare workers
     

  • 9:43 am

    Brazil will vaccinate an entire city's adult population to test the effect on Covid-19 infection rate

  • 9:24 am

    US Covid-19 deaths pass 495,000

  • 8:57 am

    AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccines going unused in Germany as EU lags UK, US

  • 8:34 am

    New Covid-19 cases in US fall for fifth week in a row

  • 8:00 am

    UK companies look to make Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory

  • 5:18 pm

    Biden vows to make 600m vaccine doses available by end of July

  • 4:54 pm

    New Zealand reports two new cases of Covid-19 community transmission

  • 4:33 pm

    EU still short of 10m Pfizer doses but AstraZeneca production in Belgium up 'drastically'

  • 4:06 pm

    World's first human Covid-19 human challenge study to start in the UK

  • 3:39 pm

    New York files lawsuit against Amazon over inadequate health and safety measures 

  • 3:15 pm

    Worldwide Covid-19 cases pass 110 million

  • 2:59 pm

    Kenya has recorded 144 new Covid-19 cases, 4 deaths over the last 24 hours.

  • 2:20 pm

    Palestinian Authority accuses Israel of holding up vital shipments in battle against Covid-19

  • 1:59 pm

    New Zealand says Auckland’s three-day lockdown will end today at midnight

  • 1:37 pm

    South Africa says it will offer its doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to the African Union

  • 1:20 pm

    Brazil’s environment minister tests positive for Covid-19

  • 12:59 pm

    Taiwan blames China after deal for 5 million Covid-19 vaccine doses is put on hold

  • 12:35 pm

    US President Biden vows to make 600 million vaccine doses available by end of July

  • 12:18 pm

    Japan begins vaccinating healthcare workers against the coronavirus

  • 11:56 am

    The first delivery of Russia's Sputnik Covid-19 vaccine arrives in Gaza

  • 11:40 am

    South Korean authorities warn citizens against loosening enforcement of social distancing rule

  • 11:20 am

    Ukraine: Health minister claims coronavirus vaccine purchases were being hampered by “dirty information attacks” amid graft probe

  • 10:58 am

    Japan starts rollout of Covid-19 vaccines

  • 10:39 am

    South Africa: President, Cyril Ramaphosa, has announced that he will receive the Johnson & Johnson vaccine

  • 10:17 am

    France: All players in the national rugby team isolated, to be tested for Covid-19

  • 9:54 am

    France: head coach of national rugby team tests positive for Covid-19

  • 9:37 am

    South Africa to administer 80,000 doses in a large-scale trial

  • 9:20 am

    Authorities fail to explain worrying new Covid-19 variant detected in Australia

  • 8:59 am

    Dominican Republic is so far the worst affected country in the Carribean with 2,975 deaths and around 231,950 Covid-19 cases

  • 8:35 am

    New Zealand confirms third new case of Covid-19

  • 8:16 am

    North Korean hackers tried to break into Pfizer systems to look for vaccine information

  • 7:55 am

    Australia: state of Victoria to ease virus Covid-19 restrictions

  • 7:34 am

    The number of new cases of Covid-19 reported worldwide fell by 16% last week to 2.7 million - WHO

  • 7:10 am

    WHO says it expects first Covax deliveries late February

  • 5:42 pm

    258 hospital beds in Kenya are occupied by Covid-19 patients, 37 of them in ICU

  • 5:35 pm

    Kenya has recorded 174 new Covid-19 cases, 2 deaths over the last 24 hours

  • 5:18 pm

    EU reviews contracts with vaccine makers, allowing it to gain access to possible upgraded shots 

  • 4:51 pm

    Norway says it will lift all the extra restrictions imposed on the capital region to stop the spread of Covid-19

  • 4:28 pm

    Germany is to offer free Covid-19 antigen tests for all, starting March

  • 4:01 pm

    Japan to begin vaccinating its 400,000 healthcare workers Wednesday with Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

  • 3:42 pm

    Russia extends UK flight ban until mid-March, state media says.

  • 3:28 pm

    Sultan Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Saeedi of Oman considers barring flights from Tanzania after recorded 18% Covid-19 rate

  • 3:02 pm

    The US has reported its lowest daily infection count in months.

  • 2:52 pm

    Israel to ease lockdown and ask residents for proof of vaccination or recovery for some activities

  • 2:39 pm

    A court in the Netherlands directs the government to “immediately” lift a nightly curfew designed to reduce coronavirus infections.

  • 2:23 pm

    US: Elementary schools in California's Los Angeles County have been cleared to reopen for in-person learning.

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