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South Korean President Moon Jae-in, top right, watches a doctor receives a shot of AstraZeneca vaccine at a public health center in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. South Korea on Friday administered its first available shots of coronavirus vaccines to people at long-term care facilities, launching a mass immunization campaign that health authorities hope will restore some level of normalcy by the end of the year. (Choe Jae-koo/Yonhap via AP)

Asia Today: 1st vaccines reach arms in S. Korea, Hong Kong

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Protesters clash with police at the start of a planned march to Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, as police stop all protests before they reach parliament Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. Various groups planned to protest during Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's 2021 Budget Speech.(AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

South Africa to spend $712 million on mass vaccination drive

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press

A Danish police officer guards a closed border crossing near Handewitt, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. Denmark has closed several smaller border crossings to Germany because of the coronavirus situation in the region near the city of Flensburg. (Frank Molter/dpa via AP)

The Latest: Biden to mark 500,000 lives lost with ceremony

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a vial of the Oxford/Astra Zeneca Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in Cwmbran, south Wales. The British government says it aims to give every adult in the country a first dose of coronavirus vaccine by July 31, a month earlier than its previous target. In addition, the goal is for everyone over 50 or with an underlying health condition to get a shot by April 15, rather than the previous target of May 1. (Geoff Caddick/Pool via AP, File)

Britain moves up timeline for COVID vaccination of all adults

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

File - In this Friday, Sept. 11, 2020 file photo, Shiites attend a prayer or the first time in months since the restrictions were imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus at a mosque in Kufa, Iraq. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil, File)

Old habits imperil Iraq as doctors warn of second virus wave

By ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD - Associated Press

Healthcare workers walk along an overgrown footpath of the Mineira slum in order to reach seniors as part of an expansion of the city's vaccination program for elderly people who cannot leave their homes, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Vaccination of whole Brazilian city spares it from shortages

By DIANE JEANTET and TATIANA POLLASTRI - Associated Press

In this Jan. 18, 2021, file photo, a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 is prepared at a vaccination center of the 3rd district, in Paris. Japan's COVID-19 vaccinations are beginning Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, after the government granted belated first approval to a shot co-developed by Pfizer Inc. that the United States and many other countries started using two months ago.(AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Pfizer-BioNTech to get EU 200 million more COVID-19 shots

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EXPLAINER: Japan begins vaccination drive, but why so late?

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Carol Ditshego waits for patients coming for a COVID-19 test at the Ndlovu clinic in Elandsdoorn, 200 kms north-east of Johannesburg Thursday Feb. 11, 2021. The Ndlovu center is running a study of the Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccine with 602 people from the community participating. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

South Africa readies to give J&J jabs to health care workers

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a vial of the AstraZeneca vaccine during a visit to a coronavirus vaccination centre at the Health and Well-being Centre in Orpington, south-east London, Monday, Feb. 15, 2021. (Jeremy Selwyn/Pool Photo via AP)

U.N. approves AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

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EXPLAINER: UN vaccine plan for poor countries nears rollout

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Health workers Diego Feitosa Ferreira, 28, right, and Clemilton Lopes de Oliveira, 41, leave a home after a resident denied to be vaccinated against the new coronavirus, in the Capacini community, along the Purus river, in the Labrea municipality, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. Navigating complex waterways to reach remote communities in Brazil’s Amazon is only the first challenge for the healthcare workers vaccinating Indigenous and riverine people against COVID-19. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Brazil governors seek own vaccine supplies as stocks run low

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his fifth State of the Nation Address to a restricted parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Prior to his address Ramaphosa lit a candle for the some 46,000 people who have died from COVID-19 in the country. (Esa Alexander/Pool via AP)

South Africa’s Ramaphosa urges support for vaccination drive

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press

African nations still encouraged to use AstraZeneca vaccine

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a debate on the united EU approach to COVID-19 vaccinations at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (Johanna Geron, Pool via AP)

EU top official regrets ‘mistakes’ over vaccine export gaffe

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

A nurse holds a dose of AstraZeneca vaccine before administering it to a tourist resort employee north of Port Louis, Mauritius, Wednesday Feb. 10, 2021. Three tourist hotels have been selected as vaccination centers as the Indian ocean island kicks its COVID-19 vaccination campaign. (Sumeet Mudhoo/L'express Maurice via AP)

WHO expert group recommends use of AstraZeneca vaccine

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Syringes and a package with the vaccine from AstraZeneca are ready and waiting at the fourth vaccination center in Berlin at Tegel Airport, Germany, Wednesday, Feb.10, 2021. At the beginning, mainly nursing staff and medical personnel will be vaccinated against the coronavirus here. (Kay Nietfeld/Pool via AP)

AstraZeneca, German firm to try speeding vaccine delivery

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In this Nov. 30, 2020, file photo, Thabisle khlatshwayo, who received her first shot for a COVID-19 vaccine trial, receives her second AstraZeneca shot at a vaccine trial facility set at Soweto's Chris Sani Baragwanath Hospital outside Johannesburg, South Africa. South Africa suspended on Sunday Feb. 7, 2021, plans to inoculate its front-line health care workers with the AstraZeneca vaccine after a small clinical trial suggested that it isn't effective in preventing mild to moderate illness from the variant dominant in the country. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

South Africa scraps AstraZeneca vaccine, will give J&J jabs

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

A medical staff member prepares to administer a dose of the Pfizer-Biotech vaccine to an over eighty-year-old, in the Santa Maria della Pieta hospital in Rome, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy teachers balk at AstraZeneca vaccine plans

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

A clinical trials patient receives a dose of AstraZeneca test vaccine at the University of Witwatersrand' Soweto's Chris Sani Baragwanath Hospital facility outside Johannesburg Nov. 30, 2020. South Africa is scrambling to come up with a new vaccination strategy to combat COVID-19 following its suspension of the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine, after a preliminary test showed weak results in protecting the variant dominant in this country. Among the possibilities being considered are giving one dose of AstraZeneca in the hopes it will protect against severe disease and death from the variant. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

South Africa seeks new vaccine plan after halting AstraZeneca

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press