If not enough people get vaccinated, it is more likely restrictions will be reintroduced in England, the health secretary has said.

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Officials are keeping a close watch on a new descendant of the Delta variant of Covid that is causing a growing number of infections.

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The UN has announced a nationwide polio immunisation campaign in Afghanistan for the first time in many years.

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The Valneva Covid vaccine that the UK cancelled a 100m dose order for last month, works well at priming the immune system to fight coronavirus, phase three trial results suggest.

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47.6% of the world population has had at least one dose of the vaccine - but there is a sharp contrast with low-income nations.

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United States infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci is disappointed in Governor Greg Abbott's latest move to ban vaccine mandates in the state of Texas.

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South Sudan is one of the countries with the lowest rate of vaccination against Covid-19 in the world - just 0.8% of the population have had one dose and 0.3% both jabs.

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After an SBS News investigation exposed an armed neo-Nazi group operating in Australia, Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews says the threat of right-wing extremism can’t be ignored, especially as the country begins to open up.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) says a new taskforce may be the last chance to find the origins of Covid-19.

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Some scientists are more reluctant to comment on COVID-19 with one in five reporting death threats, threats of physical or sexual violence after speaking about the pandemic.

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