As several vaccines are rolled out across the world, questions already resolved in the lab are cropping up once again, as governments face the challenges of delivering the jabs to millions of people.

More than 105 million people worldwide have been infected with COVID-19 since the disease first emerged a little over a year ago.

French President Emmanuel Macron warned Thursday about the lack of information about China's coronavirus vaccines, saying they might even encourage the development of variants if they are not effective.Speaking to the Atlantic Council think-tank, Macron conceded that China's early "diplomatic successes" in distributing vaccines to other countries could be seen as "a little bit humiliating for us as (Western) leaders".But he warned that the efficacy of a jab from

The COVAX programme to ensure equitable worldwide access to COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday published its first distribution list, with enough doses for countries to immunise more than three percent of their populations by mid-2021.The distribution plan comes with lower-income countries falling behind in the vaccination race - a problem COVAX was set up to address.It broke down how the programme's initial 337.2 million doses will be distributed, with first deliveries exp

A Myanmar court has charged ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi with breaching an import and export law, a spokesperson from her National League for Democracy (NLD) said Wednesday.The charges come days after the military staged a lightning coup, detaining Suu Kyi and Myanmar president Win Myint, and the army chief General Min Aung Hlaing was granted "legislative, judicial and executive powers".The swift power seizure effectively returns a nation at the edge of democracy to direct militar

Since the British declared independence of Burma in 1948, the Tatmadaw – Burmese Army – has been running modern-day Burma via coups and proxies.

More than 100 million COVID-19 vaccines have been given around the world, an AFP tally from official sources found Tuesday.But none of the world's 29 poorest countries has formally started mass vaccination drives, while the richest nations have given more than two-thirds of jabs administered.Israel leads the race by far, with 37 percent of its population having received at least one dose, while more than a fifth have already got their second.Yet more than a third of humanity (35 percent)

The Myanmar military's detention of Aung San Suu Kyi during this week's coup has revived memories of her more than 15 years of house arrest at a lakeside villa in Yangon during the country's last period of junta rule.Under the cover of darkness early Monday, soldiers took Myanmar's de facto leader - who became a beacon for democracy in the 1990s and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate - back into custody.A lawmaker from her National League for Democracy (NLD) party, who requested

Despite criticism of Myanmar’s recent electoral process – said to be an “apartheid election,” one that was “less free and fair than the last” – as stated by Burma Campaign United Kingdom, the ASEAN member state still went ahead with its second general elections on 8 November, 2020. Even before the results were announced, widely admired civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) was projected to be returned to power in the election.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday blasted critics of its investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and challenged those claiming to know better to come forward with the smoking gun.A WHO investigative team is in Wuhan, China - where the first cases were discovered in December 2019 - trying to piece together how the virus jumped from animals to humans before going on to kill more than two million people.The UN agency's emergencies director Michael Ryan hit out at