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![UK Says COVID-19 Booster, Annual Vaccinations Very Probable](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/01/04/1399010410461045419966642.jpg)
![Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID Shot Less Effective against South African Variant: Study](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/09/01/1399090110492489221646932.jpg)
Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID Shot Less Effective against South African Variant: Study
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – British drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Saturday its vaccine developed with the University of Oxford appeared to offer only limited protection against mild disease caused by the South African variant of COVID-19, based on early data from a trial.
![Austria Ready to Produce Russian, Chinese Vaccines If Approved by EU: Chancellor](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1397/06/26/1397062619121081115398482.jpg)
Austria Ready to Produce Russian, Chinese Vaccines If Approved by EU: Chancellor
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Austria is ready to produce Russian and Chinese COVID-19 vaccines if they are registered by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said in an interview with the Welt am Sonntag newspaper published on Sunday.
![COVID-19 May Have Spread in Wuhan Seafood Market, but Originated Elsewhere: Expert](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1398/11/15/1398111510273529419579822.jpg)
COVID-19 May Have Spread in Wuhan Seafood Market, but Originated Elsewhere: Expert
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Wuhan's Huanan seafood market may have made it possible for the novel coronavirus to spread, but it does not mean the virus originated there, a Russian expert said.
![Russia Aims to Boost Sputnik Vaccine Production Abroad](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/06/08/1399060812334819221075712.jpg)
Russia Aims to Boost Sputnik Vaccine Production Abroad
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Russia is working to increase production of its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in foreign countries, the Kremlin said Wednesday, as many European nations struggle to roll out their jabs.
![WHO Team Visits Wuhan Institute of Virology on COVID-19 Origins Investigation Mission](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/01/15/1399011510502263620047742.jpg)
WHO Team Visits Wuhan Institute of Virology on COVID-19 Origins Investigation Mission
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology on Wednesday, as part of their mission to investigate the origins of COVID-19, local media reported.
![Vaccines May Protect against Severe Disease Even As Variants Evolve](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/10/25/1399102500174742522020592.jpg)
Vaccines May Protect against Severe Disease Even As Variants Evolve
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – COVID-19 vaccines might offer protection against severe disease even as coronavirus variants evolve to better allow continued transmission between people, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group Andrew Pollard said on Wednesday.
![UK Begins Door-to-Door Testing of 80,000 People as New COVID-19 Variants Spread](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/10/20/1399102015451583721990722.jpg)
UK Begins Door-to-Door Testing of 80,000 People as New COVID-19 Variants Spread
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Britain begins door-to-door COVID-19 testing of 80,000 people on Tuesday in a bid to stem the spread of a new highly infectious so called South African variant of the novel coronavirus.
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January Saw Highest Coronavirus Hospitalization Average in US
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – January saw the greatest number of COVID-19 fatalities and the highest average number of coronavirus hospitalizations of any month in the US, according to the COVID tracking project.
![Two Million Australians in Lockdown after One Coronavirus Case Found](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/01/06/1399010613133677019984422.jpg)
Two Million Australians in Lockdown after One Coronavirus Case Found
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – About 2 million Australians begun their first full day of a strict coronavirus lockdown on Monday following the discovery of one case in the community in Perth, capital of Western Australia state, but no new cases have since been found.
![UK Confident of COVID Vaccinations after Securing EU Guarantees](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/10/25/1399102500174742522020592.jpg)
UK Confident of COVID Vaccinations after Securing EU Guarantees
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Britain’s government is confident its COVID-19 vaccination program is secure after receiving guarantees from the European Union, trade minister Liz Truss said on Sunday, trying to smooth over a row about vaccine supplies.
![WHO Team Visits China's Wuhan Food Market to Investigate Origins of COVID-19](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/11/11/1399111112324364822121972.jpg)
WHO Team Visits China's Wuhan Food Market to Investigate Origins of COVID-19
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An international team from the World Health Organization tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited a food market in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
![Pentagon Pauses Plan to Offer COVID Vaccine to Guantanamo Bay Prisoners](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1397/04/16/1397041608504416214668892.jpg)
Pentagon Pauses Plan to Offer COVID Vaccine to Guantanamo Bay Prisoners
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Pentagon announced Saturday they would pause their plan to offer coronavirus vaccinations to detainees at Guantanamo Bay, reversing course just days after they said that the vaccine would be administered to those that wanted it.
![Germany Threatens Legal Action over Vaccine Delays](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1394/05/26/139405261101118965892442.jpg)
Germany Threatens Legal Action over Vaccine Delays
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Germany's government on Sunday threatened legal action against laboratories failing to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the European Union on schedule, amid tension over delays to deliveries from AstraZeneca.
![January's Daily UK COVID Death Toll Averages More than 1,000, Figures Show](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/10/20/1399102015451583721990722.jpg)
January's Daily UK COVID Death Toll Averages More than 1,000, Figures Show
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – More than 1,000 people in the UK have died of COVID on average each day in January, making it the deadliest month of the pandemic so far by the government’s count, with more than 28,000 deaths as of Thursday.
![UK COVID Variant to Become More Dominant in US by Early Spring, Says Fauci](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1399/04/17/1399041712005139620738012.jpg)
UK COVID Variant to Become More Dominant in US by Early Spring, Says Fauci
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The new strain of the novel coronavirus that first appeared in the United Kingdom will become more dominant in the United States by the middle of spring, US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci said.
![China Warns US against Politicizing WHO Virus Probe](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1393/08/11/139308111302288513981842.jpg)
China Warns US against Politicizing WHO Virus Probe
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – WHO experts probing the origins of the coronavirus must be allowed to work free from "political interference", Beijing said Thursday, in a rebuke to the White House, as the team's closely watched mission began.
![UN Chief Hopes WHO Will Approve Russia’s COVID-19 Vaccine ASAP](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1398/11/02/1398110203563525719466932.jpg)
UN Chief Hopes WHO Will Approve Russia’s COVID-19 Vaccine ASAP
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres hoped that the World Health Organization (WHO) will certify Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible.
![Pandemic A Wake-Up to World Leaders on Food Frailties, WFP Says](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1394/03/03/139403031851492485363622.jpg)
Pandemic A Wake-Up to World Leaders on Food Frailties, WFP Says
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Vulnerabilities in the world's food supply system have been laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic, making global leaders more aware that if not fixed they could mean famine and mass migration, the head of United Nations' World Food Program said.
![Global COVID-19 Cases Surpass 100 Million as Nations Tackle Vaccine Shortages](https://newsmedia.tasnimnews.com/Tasnim/Uploaded/Image/1398/12/07/1398120709023733919789742.jpg)