Paris [France], February 7 (ANI): France began distributing the AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday as epidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet warned the coronavirus variant B.1.1.7 -- first identified in the UK - could be dominant in the country by March.
Tehran [Iran], February 7 (ANI/Xinhua): Iranian Minister of Health and Medical Education Saeed Namaki announced on Sunday that vaccination against COVID-19 will start on Tuesday, official news agency IRNA reported.
Helsinki [Finland], February 7 (ANI/Sputnik): Estonia has received the first batch of the coronavirus vaccine developed by the UK-Swedish AstraZeneca pharmaceutical company along with Oxford University, the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs said on Sunday.
Male [Maldives], February 7 (ANI/Xinhua): The Maldives has vaccinated over 6,000 people against the COVID-19 pandemic in the first six days of its vaccination program, local media citing the Health Protection Agency (HPA) reported here Sunday.
Kathmandu [Nepal], February 7 (ANI): After receiving one million doses of Indian-made COVID-19 vaccine, Nepal has completed the first phase of its vaccination drive with as many as 184,857 persons receiving the first dose of the vaccine in the country.
Lagos [Nigeria], February 7 (ANI/Xinhua): The World Health Organization (WHO) has assured Nigeria that it will support the country to procure, distribute and administer COVID-19 vaccines.
New Delhi [India], February 7 (ANI): India has become the third topmost country in the world in terms of the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered, the Government of India (GoI) informed on Sunday adding that only the United States and the United Kingdom remain ahead of India.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 7 (ANI): Keeping up with its humanitarian gesture, India on Sunday sent COVID-19 vaccines to Afghanistan by a Mumbai-Delhi-Kabul Air India flight.
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], February 6 (ANI): Director-General of Police (DGP) Telangana, Mahendar Reddy on Saturday got administered with COVID-19 vaccine.
Singapore, February 6 (ANI/Sputnik): A staffer of the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) has received the equivalent of five doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine due to a human error, but suffered no side effects, media reported on Saturday.
Medchal-Malkajgiri (Telangana) [India], February 6 (ANI): Rachakonda Police Commissioner Mahesh M Bhagwat was administered COVID-19 vaccine at the Malkajgiri primary health care centre here on Saturday.
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], February 6 (ANI): Haryana Police on Saturday cautioned citizens against fraudsters who could dupe them on the pretext of registration for the COVID-19 vaccine.