EU joins WHO’s coronavirus vaccine alliance, offers €400 million investment

South Africa stopped its rollout of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 jab, giving rise to international doubts about the efficacy of the vaccine. DW looks at what we know so far.

A senior White House official said the US has a "role in beating the pandemic globally." The program has gotten off to a slow start in distributing vaccinations to poor nations.

Ghana becomes the first country to receive Covid-19 stocks as part of the World Health Organization's Covax scheme. It aims at levelling the playing fields between countries as poorer nations trail behind others in sourcing jabs. Also, Italy seeks a UN probe into the killing of its envoy to DR Congo this week. Congolese authorities say they're prepared to work with international experts to find out what happened. And volunteers in Zanzibar band together to save as many injured turtles as they can and nurse them back to health before the animals are returned to the ocean.

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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo receive COVID-19 vaccine

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In Madrid, heavily dependent patients with reduced mobility are being vaccinated with the single dose Janssen vaccine first. Soledad Holgado, a doctor in the Madrid region, says the single dose means "we are going to speed up the vaccination process".

The German-developed coronavirus vaccine has become the first to get the go ahead for use among children aged 12 and up.

The head of the UN agency urged rich countries to donate shots to the COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme to bridge the gap in supplies caused by India's decision to curb vaccine exports.

The second year of the global coronavirus pandemic is set to be more deadly than the first, the World Health Organization has warned.