Now playing Next Austria Austrian district hit hard by COVID variant becomes focus of study Brussels has allocated 100,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to the Austrian district of Schwaz to quickly inoculate the entire population. Scientists will monitor the roll-out an impact on the spread of the South African variant. 05/03/2021
Now playing Next USA San Diego Zoo gives experimental COVID-19 vaccine to 9 great apes Nine apes received an experimental coronavirus vaccine after an outbreak of COVID-19 among gorillas at the zoo. 05/03/2021
Now playing Next Slovakia 'Unacceptable': Ukraine slams Slovak PM over territory swap 'joke' Slovakia's Prime Minister has apologised after commenting that he would hand over a Ukrainian region to Russia in exchange for COVID-19 vaccines. 04/03/2021
Now playing Next World News Europe has seen first rise in COVID-19 cases in six weeks, warns WHO More than one million new cases of the deadly virus were recorded last week across the 51 countries included in WHO's European region. This represented a nine per cent rise on the previous week. 04/03/2021
Now playing Next United Kingdom UK to fast-track COVID-19 vaccines modified to combat new variants The UK, Australia, Canada, Singapore and Switzerland plan to fast-track modified COVID-19 vaccines so they can tackle new variants more swiftly. 04/03/2021
Now playing Next Slovakia Slovakia's ruling coalition in crisis over Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine Slovakia became the second European Union member state, after Hungary, to purchase doses of the Sputnik V vaccine following a secret deal orchestrated by Prime Minister Igor Matovic. 04/03/2021
Now playing Next World News European Medicines Agency starts review of Russia's COVID-19 vaccine The EMA has so far approved three vaccines for use across the bloc. 04/03/2021
Now playing Next Spain Uproar as Spanish king's sisters vaccinated on trip to see dad in UAE The sisters of Spanish King Felipe VI acknowledged Wednesday that they got COVID-19 vaccine shots during a visit to the United Arab Emirates to see their father. 04/03/2021
Now playing Next Europe News EU vaccine passports might not be ready by the summer. Here’s why Concerns on fundamental rights, discrimination, data privacy, and forgery are poised to become stumbling blocks for the cross-border pass. 03/03/2021
Now playing Next USA Dolly Parton sings COVID-themed 'Jolene' version as she gets vaccine "Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, I'm begging of you please don't hesitate," Dolly Parton crooned before receiving a dose of the Moderna vaccine. 03/03/2021
Now playing Next Austria Austria and Denmark to develop next generation vaccines with Israel The initiative comes amid growing frustration over delays in the EU's vaccine rollout. 02/03/2021
Now playing Next World News COVID-19: 'Unrealistic' for pandemic to be over by year-end, says WHO "Right now the virus is very much in control," the WHO's head of emergencies programme stressed on Monday. 02/03/2021
Now playing Next USA Twitter cracks down on COVID vaccine misinformation with strike system Accounts with two strikes against them will be locked for 12 hours. Five strikes will get a user permanently banned from Twitter. 02/03/2021
Now playing Next France France widens AstraZeneca jab use, backs one dose for COVID patients Health Minister Olivier Véran told France 2 on Monday evening that the AstraZeneca jab has now been approved for people aged 65-74 with "co-morbidities". 02/03/2021
Now playing Next Hungary Hungary's PM Viktor Orbán receives dose of Chinese COVID vaccine Public trust in the Chinese and Russian vaccines was far behind injections produced in the West and approved by the EU's medicines agency. 28/02/2021
Now playing Next USA US approves use of single-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine Johnson & Johnson hope to supply more than 100 million doses of its one-shot injection to the US by the end of June. 28/02/2021
Now playing Next World News UN Security Council adopts resolution demanding COVID ceasefire The resolution "will help bring vaccines to 160 million people in conflict areas or displaced by conflict,'' says the council president. 26/02/2021
Now playing Next The Cube Angela Merkel did not "refuse" the AstraZeneca vaccine Newspapers claimed the German Chancellor refused to have the vaccine. However, she wasn't offered it because she is above the age threshold. 26/02/2021
Now playing Next World News Some EU member states relinquished COVID vaccines last year: Macron EU member states agreed to redistribute COVID vaccines among themselves and many member states took extra vaccine doses that were not wanted by others. 26/02/2021
Now playing Next Europe News MEPs grill AstraZeneca's CEO Soriot over COVID vaccine delivery delays "How is it possible that you have no clue?" said Finnish MEP Silvia Modig, who called Soriot a "piece of soap" over his alleged conflicting statements in recent weeks. 25/02/2021