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Mexican president receives AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador received a shot of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday and called for older adults to get vaccinated."We're sure there is no risk, no danger, that th

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Sinovac has supplied 260 million COVID-19 vaccine doses globally

Sinovac Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine at the company's cold storage in Beijing, January 12, 2021. /CFP Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech said on Tuesday that it has supplied 260 mill

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WHO warns COVID-19 still an international public health emergency

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, July 3, 2020. /Reuters Director-General of Word Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom warne

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Just more than half of U.S. adults have gotten at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose: CDC

Just more than half of U.S. adults have now received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed on Sunday,

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Number of COVID-19 vaccinations in Kenya tops 700,000

FILE PHOTO: A COVID-19 patient isolation center in Machakos town in eastern Kenya, August 3, 2020. /VCG The number of people that have received a COVID-19 vaccination jab in Kenya surpassed th

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U.S. plant halts production of J&J COVID-19 vaccine

VCG Production of the Johnson Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a U.S. manufacturing plant was halted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over a reported error that caused millions of doses to

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More than 600,000 COVID-19 vaccines administered in UK in 24 hours

FILE PHOTO: A person receives a COVID-19 vaccine in the UK. /VCG More than 600,000 first and second doses of coronavirus vaccine were administered in the UK on within 24 hours, data released b

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Italy reports 15,370 new COVID-19 cases, 310 deaths

FILE PHOTO: A family doctor receives Moderna COVID-19 vaccine bottles in Bari, Italy. /VCG Italy on Saturday reported 15,370 new confirmed coronavirus infections, a slight decrease from the 15

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U.S. CDC: 5,800 fully vaccinated people still got COVID-19 infections

U.S. CDC reports 5,800 COVID-19 infections in fully vaccinated people. /CFP About 5,800 people who have been administered COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. have still been infected anyway, the U.S

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Chile says Sinovac vaccine 67% effective against COVID-19 infection

Chile's Ministry of Health releases its first effectiveness report of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, April 16, 2021. /CMG China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine is 67 percent effective in prevent

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EMA probes second side effect of AstraZeneca vaccine: media

The risk assessment committee (PRAC) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has started investigating reports of a second possible side effect of the AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, Brussels Times re

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Turkish study shows China's Sinovac vaccine 'significantly effective'

Hospital staff getting the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in Ankara, Turkey, January 14, 2021. /CFP China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine is significantly effective, said a Turkish health official based

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Kenyan teachers to receive COVID-19 vaccines ahead of May reopening

Students take a class after schools were re-opened after 9 months as COVID-19 measures were eased in Nairobi, Kenya on January 04, 2021. /VCG Kenyan teachers are set to join the list of priori

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Kenya Navy conducts COVID-19 vaccination exercise to seafarers

VCG Kenya’s naval force has joined in government efforts against COVID-19 by conducting a vaccination exercise targeting seafarers.The Kenya Navy Medical team on Tuesday gave inoculations to s

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Denmark abandons AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, in a first for Europe

A street as stores reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Copenhagen, Denmark March 1, 2021. /Reuters Denmark's health authority on Wednesday formally announced that it will no longer use the As

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CGTN correspondent receives J&J vaccine

01:36 The U.S. has suffered a setback in its COVID-19 recovery after health authorities recommended pausing the Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine rollout.They made the decision after six w

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Kenya's COVID-19 death toll nears 2,400 mark

FILE PHOTO: A COVID-19 patient isolation center in Machakos town in eastern Kenya, on August 3, 2020. /VCG The number of reported coronavirus-related deaths in Kenya is closing in on the 2,400