Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has tested positive for coronavirus, two days after he got his first shot of vaccination. Imran Khan is "self isolating at home," Pakistan's health minister Faisal Sultan said in a tweet on Saturday.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan tests positive for coronavirus

BRUSSELS — The calls began in December, as the United States prepared to administer its first batches of COVID-19 vaccine. Even then, it was clear that the European Union was a few weeks behind, and its leaders wanted to know what they could learn from their American counterparts.

Where Europe went wrong in its vaccine rollout, and why

Nepal's national drug regulatory authority on Saturday granted emergency use approval to Bharat Biotech's Covaxin. Nepal has reported 275,750 cases and 3,016 deaths so far.

Nepal gives emergency use approval to Bharat Biotech's Covaxin

Switzerland has postponed plans to relax its COVID-19 restrictions, the government said on Friday, citing increasing coronavirus cases and insufficient progress on vaccinations.

Switzerland postpones plan to lift Covid-19 curbs

UK health secretary has said that there will be a significant shortage in vaccine supply in April confirming supplies have been hit by a need to retest 1.7m doses and a delay in the arrival of imports from India.

United Kingdom: Health Secretary Matt Hancock says need to retest 1.7m COVID-19 doses

Europe is currently witnessing a sharp spike in new COVID-19. Most of the countries have renewed their COVID-19 restrictions to contain the growing outbreak.

Europe: COVID surge fueled by contagious virus variants

Covid-19 appears likely to develop into a seasonal disease, the United Nations said Thursday, cautioning though against relaxing pandemic-related measures simply based on meteorological factors.

Covid may become 'seasonal', UN says

In Europe, conflicts seem to brew between the European Union blocking the United Kingdom over the supplies of COVID-19 vaccines. It started after EU's Chief Ursula Von Der Leyan said that they could take some exceptional steps to halt the export of vaccine to Britain.

European Union threatens to halt vaccine export to United Kingdom

Former US president Donald Trump has encouraged his Republican supporters -- one of the main groups resistant to Covid-19 vaccines -- to get their shots. This was Trump's most explicit endorsement for the national mass vaccination campaign since he left office in January.

Trump asks his supporters to get Covid vaccine, remains non-committal about political future

India's PM Narendra Modi has interacted with all the State Chief Ministers as India now witnessing a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases in the last few days. According to a Health Ministry report, India has reported more than 28,000 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds key meet on COVID-19 with CMs

The world’s first baby with COVID-19 antibodies was recently born in the United States. Born to a woman in south Florida who had received one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, the baby was born with antibodies to fight coronavirus.

World's first baby with coronavirus antibodies born in US

After days of touting the safety of AstraZeneca’s vaccine, Italy’s Health minister, Roberto Speranza, took a call from his German counterpart Monday and learned that Germany was concerned enough about a few cases of serious blood clots among some who had received the vaccine to suspend its use.

Europe’s vaccine suspension may be driven as much by politics as science

A new Coronavirus variant has been found in France's Brittany. In a statement, the French health ministry said that the new mutant strain had been found in a cluster of cases several of which had not been detected by RT-PCR tests.

Coronavirus Update: New Coronavirus variant found in France's Brittany

China is all set to ease travel restrictions for foreigners provided they have taken China made vaccine after more than a year of shut the borders.

China set to ease travel restrictions for foreigners

President Joe Biden and his allies are hitting the road this week to promote the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill he signed in law last week as the right prescription for a country humbled by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Biden White House launching 'Help is Here' tour to promote stimulus package in key states

The European Union is mulling to issue what is described as the COVID Pass to allow for seamless travel in a bit to boost the tourism industry.

Coronavirus Update: European Union seeks to restart travel with 'COVID Pass

India on Tuesday logged 24,492 cases of Covid-19 and 131 fatalities in the last 24 hours. The cases declined by 1,800 from the previous day, while 13 more deaths were reported, the data shared by the Union Health Ministry showed.

India logs over 24,000 daily COVID cases again, infection rate nears 2%

The overall number of global Covid-19 cases has surpassed the grim milestone of 120 million as the pandemic is still raging, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.

Global COVID-19 caseload tops 120 million

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha became the first person to be inoculated with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in the Southeast Asian country on Tuesday after the rollout had been temporarily put on hold over safety concerns.

Thai PM gets first shot of AstraZeneca vaccine after safety scare

Standing tall like a wall: Coronavirus inspires graffiti to spread awareness

The World Health Organisation and the European drug regulator urge country not to panic as several of them have since halted the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

WHO: Countries should continue AstraZeneca rollout

As Democrats pushed this month to pass the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, they were eager to rebuke Republicans for opposing en masse a measure filled with aid to struggling Americans.

Democrats, pushing stimulus, admit to regrets on Obama’s 2009 response

European Union is looking for a boost to get its inoculation efforts back on track. Reports suggest that EU is turning to Russia for help. European governments are considering talks with Sputnik-v developers. How will this deal affect EU & the world? WION's Molly Gambhir brings you more.

European Union looking for vaccine boost

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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan tests positive for coronavirus

Where Europe went wrong in its vaccine rollout, and why

Nepal gives emergency use approval to Bharat Biotech's Covaxin

Switzerland postpones plan to lift Covid-19 curbs

United Kingdom: Health Secretary Matt Hancock says need to retest 1.7m COVID-19 doses

Europe: COVID surge fueled by contagious virus variants

Covid may become 'seasonal', UN says

European Union threatens to halt vaccine export to United Kingdom

Trump asks his supporters to get Covid vaccine, remains non-committal about political future

Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds key meet on COVID-19 with CMs

World's first baby with coronavirus antibodies born in US

Europe’s vaccine suspension may be driven as much by politics as science

Coronavirus Update: New Coronavirus variant found in France's Brittany

China set to ease travel restrictions for foreigners

Biden White House launching 'Help is Here' tour to promote stimulus package in key states

China set to ease travel restrictions for foreigners

Coronavirus Update: European Union seeks to restart travel with 'COVID Pass

India logs over 24,000 daily COVID cases again, infection rate nears 2%

Global COVID-19 caseload tops 120 million

Thai PM gets first shot of AstraZeneca vaccine after safety scare

Standing tall like a wall: Coronavirus inspires graffiti to spread awareness

WHO: Countries should continue AstraZeneca rollout

Democrats, pushing stimulus, admit to regrets on Obama’s 2009 response

European Union looking for vaccine boost