 | | | | A doctor who has spent the past year treating COVID-19 patients on Friday became the first person in Nigeria to be vaccinated against the disease, kicking off a mammoth campaign that aims to inoculate 80 million people this year. | | |
| | | Swiss church bells rang out at noon on Friday and people observed a minute of silence to mark a year since the country's first death from COVID-19. | | |
| | | South Africa is negotiating with an African Union (AU) platform to buy COVID-19 vaccines for at least 10 million of its people, a senior health official said on Friday. | | |
| | | The Japanese government plans to extend a state of emergency to combat COVID-19 for Tokyo and three neighbouring prefectures until March 21, two weeks longer than originally scheduled, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Friday. | | |
| | | Italy's central Lazio region, around the capital Rome, plans to ask for 1 million shots of Russia's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine once it receives approval from the European Union regulator, a regional government source said on Friday. | | |
| | | Kenya began vaccinating people on Friday against COVID-19 with AstraZeneca shots hoped to help revive the battered tourism-dependent economy of East Africa's richest nation. | | |
| | | Australia has asked the European Commission to review its decision to block a shipment of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine and Japan is investigating the matter, as countries importing EU-made shots fear a potential impact on supplies. | | |
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| | | Italy has asked to verify whether it was possible to extend the use of Astrazeneca's COVID-19 vaccine to people over the age of 65, a spokesman for the health minister said on Friday. | | |
| | | World Health Organization officials said on Friday the risk of an Ebola outbreak spreading from Guinea to its neighbours was "very high" and that some neighbouring countries were not prepared for outbreaks or for future vaccination campaigns. | | |
| | | A panel of experts that advises Austria's government on vaccines recommended on Friday that AstraZeneca's coronavirus jab be given to people over 65, Austrian news agency APA said. | | |
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