William Shakespeare, first Briton to be vaccinated against COVID-19, has died at 81
A man named William Shakespeare, first UK man and one of the first in the world to receive an approved COVID-19 vaccine this past December...
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Congress OKs $1.9T virus relief bill in win for Biden, Dems
A Congress riven along party lines has approved the landmark $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, as President Joe Biden and Democrats claimed a major triumph on...
Covid-19: Police break up fake vaccine network in China and South Africa
Police in China and South Africa have seized thousands of doses of counterfeit Covid-19 vaccine and made dozens of arrests, Interpol says. In China, police...
Twitter cracks down on COVID vaccine misinformation
Twitter says it has begun labeling tweets that include misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines and using a strike system to eventually remove accounts that repeatedly...
Nigeria receives nearly 4 million vaccines from COVAX
Nearly 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, the third and largest delivery so far to an African country...
Ivory Coast 2nd country to receive COVID vaccines via COVAX
Ivory Coast on Friday became the second country in the world to receive a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the global COVAX initiative, with 504,000...
Merkel says COVID variants risk third virus wave, must proceed carefully
New variants of COVID-19 risk a third wave of infections in Germany and the country must proceed with great care so that a new nationwide...
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine works well in big real world test
A real-world test of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in more than half a million people confirms that it’s very effective at preventing serious illness or death,...
Biden aims to distribute masks to millions in equity push
President Joe Biden plans to distribute millions of face masks to Americans in communities hard-hit by the coronavirus beginning next month as part of his...
US coronavirus death toll approaches milestone of 500,000
The U.S. stood Sunday at the brink of a once-unthinkable tally: 500,000 people lost to the coronavirus. A year into the pandemic, the running total...