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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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China's GDP expands record 18.3% in Q1 amid domestic, global demand recovery

China's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded at a record pace of 18.3 percent year on year during the first quarter of this year as it rebounded from a historic contra

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China's GDP expands 18.3 pct in Q1

China's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded at a record pace of 18.3 percent year on year during the first quarter of this year as it rebounded from a historic contraction a year earlier, data from

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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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China donates COVID-19 test kits to Uganda

Chinese Ambassador to Uganda Zheng Zhuqiang poses for a picture with Uganda's Minister for Health Jane Ruth Aceng on 14 March, 2021. /Photo courtesy: Ministry of Health -Uganda China on Wednes

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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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Johnson & Johnson vaccinations on hold

02:08 Johnson Johnson vaccines are on hold at vaccination centers across the U.S. on Tuesday after six women out of the almost seven million people inoculated developed rare blood clot

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Comoros starts COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Comoros kicked off its COVID-19 vaccination drive on Saturday, with President Azali Assoumani the first to be inoculated with a jab of China's Sinopharm vaccine.

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HSBC and ADB join forces in $300m vaccine financing

An employee checking the label on a Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine, December 23, 2020. /CFP HSBC and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a combined financing of $300 million to help Asia

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Biden says all U.S. adults eligible for COVID-19 vaccine by April 19

U.S. President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that all American adults will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccines by April 19, two weeks ahead of the original deadline which was set on May 1.Biden made the

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Britain to deploy Moderna COVID-19 shot from third week of April - minister

Britain will begin the rollout of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in mid-April, vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Tuesday, adding the vaccination programme w

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U.S. President Biden expresses optimism in COVID-19 battle

00:54 U.S. President Joe Biden visited and talked with workers at a COVID-19 vaccination site in Alexandria, Virginia. He urged Americans to get vaccinated and warned them not to let t

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Europe's vaccine rift explained

03:14 Few events in history have required an unapologetic effort of global cooperation more urgently than the COVID-19 pandemic, yet many countries around the world have been treating

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Venezuela faces shortages of COVID-19 vaccines

02:29 The Venezuelan government has reported a sharp rise in the number of COVID-19 cases with nearly 1,350 new infections reported on Wednesday, and 13 deaths. The numbers remain low

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First U.S. college to require COVID-19 vaccination

02:43 U.S. President Joe Biden predicts that in about three weeks 90 percent of eligible Americans will have had their first COVID-19 vaccination. As more Americans are being vaccinate