Sources: The Hill
NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci receives the Moderna vaccine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. 2020-12-22
The White House announces that Vice President Mike Pence, his wife Karen, and Surgeon General Jerome Adams will receive the vaccine on Friday. President-elect Joe Biden also announces that he will receive the vaccine next week. 2020-12-16
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
The Health Ministry announces that Spain will receive 20 million vaccine doses from Pfizer and BioNTech by early 2021. 2020-11-10
Pfizer says that it will not seek emergency approval for its COVID-19 vaccine until after the upcoming election. 2020-10-16
President Vladimir Putin announces that the country has approved its second COVID-19 vaccine following preliminary trials. 2020-10-14
Russia says that it has started vaccine trials for their Gam-COVID-Vac vaccine in the United Arab Emirates. The announcement comes after President Vladimir Putin had a phone call with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. 2020-10-12
Moderna announces that their potential COVID-19 vaccine produced promising results in elderly patients during an early stage clinical trial. 2020-08-26
Minister of State Owned Enterprises and chief of the COVID-19 recovery team, Erick Thohir, announces that the government would bar foreign visitors until the completion of a vaccine. Indonesian scientists are testing a COVID-19 vaccine with Sinovac Biotech, which Thohir says is likely to be completed next year. 2020-08-15
Scientists from Imperial College London say that a vaccine could be tested soon. 2020-03-14