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China has announced that its requirement for travellers arriving in the country to go into quarantine will end on 8 January.

The UK has become the first country to approve a dual vaccine which tackles both the original Covid virus and the newer Omicron variant.

Brazil's Supreme Court has opened an inquiry into comments made by President Jair Bolsonaro wrongly claiming that Covid-19 vaccines may increase the chance of contracting Aids.

Pfizer's two-dose Covid-19 vaccine has received full approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - the first jab to be licensed in the nation.

The European Union’s medicines regulator on Tuesday said it had found a “possible link” between Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine and the development of rare blood clots in a small number of recipients, but concluded the shot’s overall benefits outweigh any risks associated with its use.

In May last year, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared that his country would soon provide safe and effective vaccines as a “global public good”, especially to the developing world.

Suspensions follow reports that some people developed blood clots after receiving the shot, but the WHO and the EMA say they have seen no evidence of a link.

The global COVID-19 vaccine roll-out is creating a “vaccine apartheid”. As of February 24, approximately 216 million people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 globally. Only 8.4 percent of these are in low and lower-middle-income countries, which are home to nearly half of the world’s population.

TÉMOIGNAGE. Expert en maladies infectieuses, Mosoka Fallah raconte depuis le Liberia comment les pays de la région ont appris des anciennes épidémies.

INQUIÉTUDE. Après avoir choisi le vaccin Johnson & Johnson, l’Afrique du Sud se dit prête à revendre ses doses d’AstraZeneca, retardant un peu plus sa campagne.