BRUSSELS, Jan 14 — Poorer nations last month rejected more than 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines distributed by the global programme Covax, mainly because of a rapidly approaching expiry date, a Unicef official said on Thursday.

GENEVA, June 25 — The Covax vaccine-sharing scheme will add any coronavirus shot to its toolbox as long as it has been approved by the World Health Organisation or a national drug regulator, the Gavi vaccine alliance told Sputnik on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 23 — Malaysia calls for the World Bank to be a strong voice for developing countries for global vaccine equity.

WASHINGTON, June 2 — More than 50 countries will get approval to vaccinate against the novel coronavirus by the end of June, Sputnik reported World Bank president David Malpass telling reporters on Tuesday.

KOTA TINGGI, April 24 — Malaysia has received its first batch of 268,800 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba.

WASHINGTON, April 2 — Unicef is calling on wealthier countries to stop "vaccine nationalism" and share coronavirus vaccines through the Covax facility, Middle East and North Africa Regional Director Ted Chaiban said during the World Health Organisation (WHO) EMRO Press Conference on Thursday, reported Sputnik.

JAKARTA, March 8 — Indonesia's state-owned pharmaceutical company Bio Farma said that 1.1 million doses of vaccine produced by AstraZeneca under the global vaccine-sharing Covax facility would arrive on Monday.

SEOUL, March 3 — North Korea is expected to be supplied with around 1.7 million doses of vaccines against Covid-19 by May through a global vaccine distribution programme.

GENEVA, Feb 4 — The first plan for the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines to developing countries was unveiled on Wednesday by the UN-backed Covax facility, Anadolu Agency reported.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 — The export of Covid-19 vaccines to third countries, including Malaysia, under existing Advance Purchase Agreements (APAs) will be safeguarded to the largest extent feasible, said Michalis Rokas, who is ambassador of the European Union (EU) delegation to Malaysia.

GENEVA, Jan 23 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) and makers of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine announced Friday that they are ready to provide up to 40 million initial doses to poorer countries through the Covax facility.

JAKARTA, Jan 1 — Indonesia received its second batch of coronavirus vaccines from Sinovac on Thursday, the country's Foreign and Health Ministers said, as the world's fourth most populous country prepares a mass inoculation programme.

JAKARTA, Dec 10 — Experts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and the European Union (EU) had convened on December 8 to exchange best practices on policies and to identify further opportunities for collaboration on Covid-19 vaccines.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 19 — The Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation (Gavi) are finalising the date to sign the Optional Purchase Arrangement agreement to participate in the Covid-19 vaccine global access (Covax) vaccine allocation plan.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 19 — Malaysia's participation in Covax, a global initiative supported by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to ensure fair and equitable access to Covid-19 vaccine worldwide, is one of the topics to be discussed in the Dewan Rakyat sitting today.

SEOUL, Nov 13 — President Moon Jae-in on Friday held a summit with leaders of Southeast Asia's Mekong River nations via video links, in which he promised to contribute US$10 million to help provide new coronavirus vaccines to developing nations.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 4 — The Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry (Mosti) has estimated that RM3 billion is needed to procure Covid-19 vaccine for Malaysians, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

GENEVA, Oct 20 — A total of 184 countries and economies have now joined Covax, an international initiative co-led by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and partners to ensure effective and equitable global access to Covid-19 vaccines, reported Xinhua news agency.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 20 — Anti-virus medicines such as remdesivir were found to be ineffective in treating Covid-19 patients as well as not helpful in reducing death cases of the outbreak.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 29 — The government is expected to be able to decide on the Covid-19 vaccine by early next year, said Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.