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Land is excavated to make way for more burial space in the Maitland cemetery in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. The City of Cape Town is working closely with the Muslim Judicial Council to increase burial capacity as COVID-19 claims more lives in a second surge of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

Africa secures another 400 million COVID-19 vaccine doses

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Sri Lankan health officials attend a mock COVID-19 vaccination drive in Piliyandala, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021. Sri Lanka has begun rehearsals to administer COVID-19 vaccines to its health workers a day after the government approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines for emergency use in the country. The island nation has seen a spike in infections and deaths in recent months with more than 52,000 positive cases and 265 deaths reported from October. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

India donates first 500,000 doses of vaccine to Sri Lanka

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi inspects and watches the vaccination processes to health workers at a hospital Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Health workers in Myanmar on Wednesday became the country's first people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, just five days after the first vaccine supply was delivered from India. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Myanmar health workers receive first COVID-19 vaccinations

By THEIN ZAW - Associated Press

Travelers are screened before entering the Wuchang train station at the start of the annual Lunar New Year travel in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Efforts to dissuade Chinese from traveling for Lunar New Year appeared to be working as Beijing’s main train station was largely quiet and estimates of passenger totals were smaller than in past years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Asia Today: China’s big holiday travel season light so far

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Land is excavated to make way for more burial space in the Maitland cemetery in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. The City of Cape Town is working closely with the Muslim Judicial Council to increase burial capacity as COVID-19 claims more lives in a second surge of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

Battling COVID-19, South Africa prepares for first vaccines

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine is seen on a cooler before it is administered to health workers at Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. Thousands of health workers lined up across Nepal to get the coronavirus vaccine Wednesday as the Himalayan nation began its campaign to get the population vaccinated within three months. Neighboring India gifted Nepal 1 million doses of the vaccine manufactured under license by the Serum Institute of India. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

EU official: AstraZeneca pulls out of vaccine delivery talks

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

EU official: AstraZeneca pulls out of meeting with EU to discuss delayed vaccine commitments

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a joint news conference with European Council President Charles Michel at the end of a EU summit video conference at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. European Union leaders assessed more measures to counter the spread of coronavirus variants during a video summit Thursday as the bloc's top disease control official said urgent action was needed to stave off a new wave of hospitalizations and deaths. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)

EU demands that vaccine makers honor their commitments

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

European Council President Charles Michel, left, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen leave after a joint news conference at the end of a EU summit video conference at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. European Union leaders assessed more measures to counter the spread of coronavirus variants during a video summit Thursday as the bloc's top disease control official said urgent action was needed to stave off a new wave of hospitalizations and deaths. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP)

EU pressures AstraZeneca to deliver vaccines as promised

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Egypt says it has launched vaccinations against coronavirus

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Sri Lankan municipal health workers take a swab sample from a man to test for COVID-19 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Sri Lanka on Thursday re-opened the country for tourists after keeping the doors closed for the visitors for nearly 10 months due to the COVID-19. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lanka approves vaccine amid warnings of virus spread

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

Health workers prepare doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd., during the start of the vaccination plan on indigenous lands at the Ticuna de Umariacu village health post in Tabatinga, Amazonas state, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Brazil receives vaccine cargo from India amid supply concern

By DIANE JEANTET and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

A van stands parked waiting to transport AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccines, manufactured under license by Serum Institute of India, at Tribhuwan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. India sent 1 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine to Nepal on Thursday, a gift that is likely to help repair strained ties between the two neighbors. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

India gives 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Nepal

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

Smoke rises from the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine maker that is manufacturing the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine for the coronavirus, in Pune, India, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Fire hits building at Indian producer of COVID-19 vaccines

By Rafiq Maqbool - Associated Press

Mobile labs take vaccine studies to diverse neighborhoods

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and JOSEPH B. FREDERICK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, file photo, an Indian doctor shows a COVID-19 vaccine at a government Hospital in Jammu, India. India started exporting COVID-19 vaccines to its neighboring countries on Wednesday, Jan. 20. To start with, India will send 150,000 shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Bhutan and 100,000 shots to Maldives. Afterwards, vaccines will be sent Bangladesh, Nepal, India’s foreign ministry said. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

India starts supplying COVID-19 shots to neighboring nations

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus rides a public bus in Beijing, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. China is now dealing with coronavirus outbreaks across its frigid northeast, prompting additional lockdowns and travel bans. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Asia Today: China records new cases, defends response

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Israelis receive the second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, in Netanya, Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Israel has struck a deal with Pfizer, promising to share vast troves of medical data with the drugmaker in exchange for the continued flow of its COVID-19 vaccine. Critics say the deal is raising major ethical concerns, including possible privacy violations and a deepening of the global divide between wealthy countries and poorer populations, including Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, who face long waits to be inoculated. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel trades Pfizer doses for medical data in vaccine blitz

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2021 file photo, a healthcare worker prepares a dose of China's Sinovac Biotech experimental vaccine for the new coronavirus to inject into a volunteer during the testing stage at the University Hospital of Brasilia, Brazil. The government has yet to approve a single vaccine, and Health Ministry officials have ignored outside experts’ advice. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil’s health agency approves the use of two vaccines

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2020 file photo, a woman participates in a protest against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the new coronavirus pandemic in Brazilia, Brazil. The country hasn't approved a single vaccine yet, and independent health experts who participated in its immunization program say the plan is still incomplete, at best. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Sidelining experts, Brazil bungled its immunization plans

By DIANE JEANTET and DÉBORA ÁLVARES - Associated Press