This report focuses on the World Health Organization's (WHO) Emergency Use Listing (EUL) of authorized vaccines as of 30 September 2021. Currently six vaccines are authorised for emergency use: BNT162b2/COMIRNATY (Pfizer-BioNTech, USA), Spikevax/Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine/ mRNA-1273 (Moderna, USA), Vaxzevria/ChAdOx1 nCoV-19/AZD1222/Covishield (AstraZeneca/Oxford, UK, India), Janssen Covid-19 vaccine/Johnson & Johnson (Janssen, USA), Sinopharm/BBIBP-CorV (China), and Sinovac/CoronaVac (China). This report provides a condensed summary concerning vaccine efficacy, safety, protection against variants, and further important information for each vaccine, in the form of a synoptic table. The information and data in this synoptic table was extracted from phase III clinical trials and from observational studies. This report particularly focuses on the latest data on vaccine effectiveness, updates on the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine, booster doses, and new data on the safety and immunogenicity of the Sinopharm and Pfizer and BioNtech vaccine in children.