G7 backs Biden infrastructure plan to rival China’s belt and road initiative
Scheme is part of wider push for G7 leaders to question China on human rights, Taiwan and Covid-19
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US agrees to buy 500m Pfizer vaccine doses to distribute to 100 countries
Under to the scheme, which Biden is expected to announce in the UK on Thursday, the US would pay for the vaccines at cost price. The first 200m doses would be distributed this year, and the remaining 300m in the first half of next year.
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Tsai: More COVID-19 vaccine doses coming soon
Tsai says the government has worked through a number of different channels to buy vaccine doses. She says there is no need to worry, as those doses will arrive soon.
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Vaccine event at Port Canaveral includes casino cruise giveaway for first 200 to arrive
Maybe you've heard about free donuts or coupons as a vaccine incentives, but what about tickets to a casino cruise?
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Johnson & Johnson vaccine: CDC lifts suspension amid blood clot concerns
Advisers to the CDC voted 10-4 to resume the shot’s emergency use authorization in the U.S. for everyone 18 and older. The panel said Friday that the vaccine’s benefits outweigh that serious but small risk — especially against a virus that’s still infecting tens of thousands of Americans every day.
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Taiwan, First batch of COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX arrives
The 199,200 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine were shipped from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, by an A350-900 aircraft operated by Taiwan's China Airlines.
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All Florida residents 18 and older are now eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine
Publix reopens vaccine portal as all adults in Florida become eligible.
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Covid vaccine scheme 'unacceptably slow' in Europe, says WHO
Hans Kluge urges ramping up of manufacturing and asks governments to share excess shots
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