EU health ministers express grave concern over vaccine hesitancy in some of the bloc's nations, including Bulgaria and Romania.

Since the pandemic hit in March 2019 rich countries have been promising to take poorer nations under their wing.

Iran’s new foreign minister says a special headquarters is to be set up within the ministry to expedite the imports of coronavirus vaccines.

The IRGC chief commander says Iran will only import coronavirus vaccines from countries whose products are certain to be safe.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has blamed the disruption in people’s access to coronavirus vaccines on breach of promises by foreign vaccine sellers, reiterating his call for self-reliance in vaccine production.  

Iran’s intelligence ministry seizes a large haul of fake COVID-19 vaccines as it cracks several major rings.

Venezuela is set to give COVAX an ultimatum to ship COVID-19 vaccines promised to the Latin American country.

The US embassy in Trinidad and Tobago is mocked after saying it has donated 80 vials of COVID-19 vaccine to the island nation of 1.4 million people.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) suggests countries stop using AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for all age groups.

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses, not cleared for use in the US, were scandalously shipped abroad, including to Canada, the European Union and South Africa.