A person waves a Canadian flag in front of a truck, as truckers and supporters continue to protest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine mandates, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, February 5, 2022...

A syringe is filled with a dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a pop-up community vaccination center at the Gateway World Christian Center in Valley Stream, New York, US, February 23, 2021...

The photo shows people protesting in the streets of the Austrian capital Vienna against total national lockdown...

Members of parliament attend a session of questions to the government at the National Assembly, the lower house of the French parliament, in Paris, France, on January 4, 2022...

French President Emmanuel Macron (photo by AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron has generated major furor after insisting his government’s COVID vaccination strategy was aimed at annoying the unvaccinated and ardently making life harder for them...

A teenager receives the Covid-19 vaccine from a nurse Anthony McLaughlin during a vaccination clinic...

The Pentagon building is seen in Arlington, Virginia, US, October 9, 2020...

Indian officials have told CNN that the country will provide Afghanistan with one million doses of Covaxin produced in India by Bharat Biotech...

© Reuters / Jeenah Moon Major US carrier Delta blames new Covid-19 cleaning rules for turning around plane that was halfway to Shanghai Delta Air Lines halted service to Shanghai so suddenly that it turned back a flight from Seattle that was already halfway to China, reportedly leaving some passengers stranded with expiring Covid-19 tests and visas...

A COVID-19 testing center in New York City The highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus is sending daily infections in parts of the United States soaring to levels higher than the pandemic peak of early 2021...

The risk of needing to stay in hospital for patients with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 is 40% to 45% lower than for patients with the Delta variant, according to research by London’s Imperial College published on Wednesday...

Blanket vaccine booster programs are likely to prolong the COVID-19 pandemic rather than ending it, as inequity in access to jabs could lead to more mutated variants that drag out the crisis, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warns...

Donald Trump squares off against Democratic challenger Joe Biden in a 2020 presidential debate...

Demonstrators protest outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta...

This photo taken on March 3, 2021 shows an inoculation of the COVID-19 Vaccine at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut...

Handout file photo released by the Venezuelan presidency shows Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA) Summit at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, on June 24, 2021...

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus holds a letter he received from Doctors for Extinction Rebellion during a protest in front of the WHO headquarters, on the sidelines of the WHO’s World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 29, 2021...

In this file photo taken on March 4, 2021, vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are seen at the Belisario Porras school San Francisco neighbourhood in Panama City...

On 11 December the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported on four cases of partial facial paralysis experienced by the recipients of the Pfizer vaccine...

The file photo shows Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine bottles...

Hundreds wait in line at Lakes Park Regional Library to recieve the COVID-19 vaccine in Fort Myers, Florida, December 30, 2020...

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Ghebreyesus, said that although the upcoming vaccine is the light at the end of the tunnel, we simply cannot accept a world in which the poor and marginalized are trampled by the rich and powerful in the stampede for vaccines...