UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has confirmed that he will take a Covid-19 vaccine publicly when it becomes available to him. ....

The UK's medical regulator has advised that anyone who has a history of significant allergic reactions to medicines, food or vaccines should not receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine currently in use in the country, according to media reports. ....

As UK began one of the largest vaccination drives, an Indian-origin couple in their 80s became one of the first few people to receive the recently approved Coronavirus vaccine. ....

A 90-year-old woman from Ireland named Margaret Keenan on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as part of the mass vaccination programme being rolled out across the UK. ....

Another 14,718 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 1,737,960, according to official figures. ....

At least 24 people were injured in a car bombimg outside a district police station in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Monday, police said. ....

The Covid pandemic has not settled down into a predictable pattern, as the situation of transmission and cases in different countries varies a lot, said an expert from World Health Organization (WHO), noting there's no one-size-fits-all solution globally. ....

Scientists from BioNTech and Astra Zeneca which are at the bleeding edge of coronavirus vaccine development revealed little known details of the origin stories of their frantic race that began early this year, at a United Nations Covid-19 summit on Friday. ....

US-based drugmaker Moderna has said that it expects to have between 100 million and 125 million doses of its experimental Covid vaccine available globally in the first quarter of 2021. ....

US President-elect Joe Biden has said that he will urge Americans to wear masks for his first 100 days after taking office next month in an effort to stem the spread of the raging Covid-19 pandemic. ....