A hospital in Boston, the United States, has refused to perform a heart transplant on a 31-year-old patient because he was not vaccinated against COVID-19, according to his family.

France’s parliament has approved President Emmanuel Macron’s plans for a “vaccine pass” to help curb the spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

French President Emmanuel Macron has generated major furor after insisting his government’s COVID vaccination strategy was aimed at “annoying” the unvaccinated and ardently making life harder for them.

“We are on the edge of an abyss — and moving in the wrong direction.”

An anti-COVID green pass protest has taken place in Rome.

China National Pharmaceutical Group Sinopharm is working to produce its own mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in an effort to more effectively fight the new variants of the coronavirus.

Iran begins the third phase of the human trial of its second homegrown coronavirus vaccine, Razi Cov Pars.