Israel introduces a new rule that requires booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to be considered fully vaccinated for everyone aged 12 and older in "Green Pass", becoming the first country to do so. 2021-10-3
The Ministry of Health announces that Brazil will begin offering booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to immunocompromised people and people over the age of 70 who received their second dose more than six months ago and will also shorten the interval between the first and second doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines to eight weeks beginning in mid-September. 2021-08-25
Turkey administers a single-day record of 1.4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines. 2021-06-15
President Rodrigo Duterte receives his first dose of the Sinopharm BBIBP-CorV vaccine. 2021-05-3
Indonesia reports its first case of a more transmissible new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 nicknamed "Eek", which contains the E484K mutation that can reduce vaccine protection. 2021-04-6
Premier Su Tseng-chang receives a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as the country begins its vaccination campaign. 2021-03-22
Lebanon receives its first shipment of 28,500 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from Belgium. 2021-02-13
U.S. President Joe Biden announces that his administration has finalized a deal purchasing a total of 200 million vaccine doses from Moderna and Pfizer. 2021-02-11
President Joko Widodo announces that the COVID-19 vaccine would be free of charge for all Indonesians, amending the government's earlier decision to limit the free vaccination programme only for healthcare frontline workers and the poor. 2020-12-16
Scientists in Oxford are expected to recruit 510 adults without COVID-19 to test a COVID-19 vaccine. 2020-03-27