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A man wearing a face mask walks on a street during lunchtime in Tokyo on Thursday, March 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Japan extends virus emergency for 2 weeks for Tokyo area

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

A healthcare worker administers a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to a Brussels police chief inspector Didier Bruer at the Brussels Expo center in Brussels, Thursday, March 4, 2021. The Expo is one of the largest vaccination centers in Belgium. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

EU, Italy stop AstraZeneca vaccine exports to Australia

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

German Health Minister Jens Spahn delivers his speech during a debate of the German Parliament Bundestag about the coronavirus outbreak situation in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

In big shift, Germany to give AstraZeneca shots to over 65s

By FRANK JORDANS and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine arrives at Kosice Airport, Slovakia, Monday March 1, 2021. Hard-hit Slovakia signed a deal to acquire 2 million dozes of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine. The country's prime minister says Slovakia will get one million shots in next two months while another million will arrive in May and June. (Frantisek Ivan/TASR via AP)

EU regulator starts a review of Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine

By Maria Cheng and Daria Litvinova - Associated Press

Rwanda receives 1st batch of COVID-19 vaccines

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

Workers move boxes loaded with COVID-19's vaccine before a handing over ceremony at Phnom Penh International Airport, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. More than 300,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from Serum Institute of India on Tuesday arrived Phnom Penh, as part of global COVAX initiative. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen inoculated against COVID-19

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

The first arrival of COVID-19 vaccines to Kenya is offloaded from a Qatar Airways flight at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, early Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Around 1.02 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India arrived at the airport as part of the COVAX facility, according to the Ministry of Health. (AP Photo)

COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to African nations pick up speed

By CARA ANNA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA and TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Pedestrians wear masks as they walk on a street in the capital Victoria, Mahe Island, Seychelles Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. The president of the Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles says he hopes enough residents will soon be vaccinated against COVID-19 to stop the spread of the virus, hoping to achieve herd immunity by mid-March by vaccinating about 70% of the population. (AP Photo/Salim Ally)

Seychelles bids to reach COVID ‘herd immunity’ by mid-March

By EMILIE CHETTY - Associated Press

The first arrival of COVID-19 vaccines to Kenya is offloaded from a Qatar Airways flight at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, early Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Around 1.02 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India arrived at the airport as part of the COVAX facility, according to the Ministry of Health. (AP Photo)

Kenya receives receives 1 million vaccines from COVAX

By BY TOM ODULA - Associated Press

Ontario says seniors won’t get AstraZeneca vaccine

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Raimonde Goudou Coffie , culture minister, receives a shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monday March 1, 2021. Ivory Coast is the second country in the world after Ghana to receive vaccines acquired through the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery of 504,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India. (AP Photo/ Diomande Ble Blonde)

Nigeria receives nearly 4 million vaccines from COVAX

By CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

Marco Trapani is standing next to one of his first customers shortly after midnight in Dortmund, Germany early morning March 1, 2021. After about a two-and-a-half-month of closing to battle the coronavirus pandemic, the first hairdressers return to work at night night. (Bernd Thissen/dpa via AP)

The Latest: Brazil health officials urge lockdowns, curfews

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A second delivery of the Johnson &amp; Johnson Covid-19 vaccines is offloaded at the O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, Saturday Feb. 27, 2021. his will take the total doses made available in South Africa for phase one of the rollout to 160,000. (AP Photo/Kim Ludbrook/Pool)

The Latest: U.S. FDA approves J&J single-shot vaccine

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Hong Kong Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan, fourth left, and Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip, fourth right, with Cathay Pacific and Fosun Pharma Co. representatives gesture after the delivery of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines at the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. (Jerome Favre/Pool Photo via AP)

Asia Today: S. Korea allows workers to squeeze extra doses

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FILE - This September 2020, file photo provided by Johnson &amp; Johnson shows a pharmacist preparing to give an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. The nation is poised to get a third vaccine against COVID-19, but health officials are concerned that at first glance the Johnson &amp; Johnson shot may not be seen as equal to other options from Pfizer and Moderna. (Johnson &amp; Johnson via AP, File)

US advisers endorse single-shot COVID-19 vaccine from J&J

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE - Associated Press

People line up to receive the China's Sinovac COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a community vaccination centre in Hong Kong, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Hong Kong began administering its first COVID-19 vaccines to the public Friday, kicking off its program offering free vaccinations to all 7.5 million residents. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

The Latest: Navajo Nation new virus cases on downward trend

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Canadian regulator authorizes AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine.

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Ivory Coast 2nd country to receive COVID vaccines via COVAX

By TOUSSAINT N'GOTTA - Associated Press

Passengers are screened and get a COVID-19 test as they enter Canada from the United States at the land border crossing in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian regulator authorizes AstraZeneca vaccine

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Health workers wheel in a patient suspected of suffering from COVID-19 into the Luziania field hospital, a suburb of Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. With the cities on the borders of Brasilia in a state of calamity due to the pandemic and with high occupancy at ICU units, mayors want to implement more rigid restrictions and limit access to the capital where many of their residents work. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil death toll tops 250,000, virus still running rampant

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press