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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

Morocco approves use of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

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Tainted rice wine kills 7 at Cambodian funeral ceremony

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A paramedic wearing a suit to protect against coronavirus, closes the door of an ambulance at Evangelismos hospital in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. Greece has imposed a nationwide nightly curfew as the number of COVID-19 cases in the country continues to surge despite a lockdown. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece: 2 private clinics appropriated to treat COVID-19

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

Pedestrians wearing masks walk past a small grocery store in the Chinatown-International District Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, in Seattle. Washington state and county health officials have warned of a spike in coronavirus cases across the state, and pleaded with the public to take the pandemic more seriously heading into the winter holidays. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

The Latest: India registers over 30,000 new virus cases

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, photo provided by the Iranian Health Ministry, medics tend to a COVID-19 patient at the Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital in Tehran, Iran. Iran is confronting a new surge of infections that is filling hospitals and cemeteries alike. (Akbar Badrkhani/Iranian Health Ministry via AP)

Iran announces its virus death toll passes 30,000

By AMIR VAHDAT - Associated Press

A heath worker attends a patient in an intensive care unit designated for people infected with COVID-19 at a hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

The Latest: India records 75,800 new cases, recovery high

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A health worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19, as others await their turn in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. India's coronavirus cases have crossed 4 million, leading the world in new infections and deepening misery in the country's vast hinterlands where surges have crippled the underfunded health care system. Initially, the virus ravaged India's sprawling and densely populated cities. It has since stretched to almost every state, spreading through villages. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s COVID-19 fatalities top 100,000, behind US, Brazil

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

A man wearing personal protective carries the body of his three-month-old son who died of COVID-19 in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. India's total of coronavirus infections passed 5 million Wednesday, still soaring and testing the feeble health care system in tens of thousands of impoverished towns and villages. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Asia Today: India’s gov’t criticized over handling of virus

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A woman carries a child and waits for transportation at a bus station in Jammu, India, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. By early May, 6.4 million people in India were likely infected by the coronavirus, said a study released Thursday, Sept. 10, by Indian scientists from the Indian Council of Medical Research, India’s apex medical research body and published in their in-house medical journal. At the time, India had detected around 35,000 cases and over a thousand deaths. But the results of India’s first nationwide study of prevailing infections in the country found that for every confirmed case that detected in May, authorities were missing between 82 and 130 infections. The study tested 28,000 people for proteins produced in response to the virus in the villages and towns across 70 districts in 21 Indian states between May 11 to June 14. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Asia Today: India adds 96K virus cases, orders some retests

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Iran shutters newspaper after expert questions virus numbers

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The &quot;Oilworkers&quot; sculpture by Beatriz Blanco is reflected in the sunglasses of a woman wearing a stylized protective face mask as a precaution against the new coronavirus, on Sabana Grande boulevard in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The Latest: Italy’s tally of new virus cases down to 239

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In this Saturday, June 20, 2020 photo, workers set up a field hospital to treat patients with COVID-19 in Baghdad, Iraq. New field hospitals have been erected to treat virus patients as hospitals reach capacity, but health workers fear the worst is still to come. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Long-dreaded virus increase hits Iraq as new cases soar

By SAMYA KULLAB and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

Security officials stand outside the entrance to a building holding a beef and lamb market in Beijing that was closed by authorities after it was visited by a person who tested positive for COVID-19, Friday, June 12, 2020. Local authorities announced on Thursday a 52-year-old man had become the city's first confirmed case of local transmission in weeks after he arrived at a clinic complaining of fever. The official Xinhua News Agency said two other cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Beijing on Friday. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The Latest: China has most new virus cases since mid-April

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Cemetery workers in protective clothing maneuver the coffin of 57-year-old Paulo Jose da Silva, who died from the new coronavirus, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, June 5, 2020. According to Monique dos Santos, her stepfather mocked the existence of the virus, didn't use a mask, didn't take care of himself, and wanted to shake hands with everybody. &quot;He didn't believe in it and unfortunately he met this end. It's very sad, but that's the truth,&quot; she said. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Brazil expunges virus death toll as data befuddles experts

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

A man in a car receives a body temperature check as he arrives to watch the Stage X drive-in concert at KINTEX parking lot in Goyang, South Korea, Saturday, May 23, 2020. The concert's aims is to provide entertainment for South Korean citizens who have been craving for music events that have been suspended during the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joo)

The Latest: Japan set to end Tokyo’s state of emergency

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Brazil teen’s death raises virus alert for indigenous groups

By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Nile river boat MS River Anuket docks in the city of Luxor in southern Egypt Saturday, March 7, 2020. The ship, carrying some 100 mostly foreign tourists is under quarantine after 12 people tested positive for the new coronavirus. The passengers have been confined to the ship while they await testing by Egyptian health authorities. (AP Photo/Maggie Michael)

The Latest: US state of Missouri reports first virus case

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Patients are treated at the Limb Reconstruction Center at Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, March 5, 2020. On Wednesday, Gaza’s Health Ministry and the World Health Organization opened the Limb Reconstruction Center, the first integrated center to provide centralized and permanent care for hundreds of Palestinians who are recovering from gunshot wounds. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

New ward provides hope for Gazans coping with gunshot wounds

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Customers buy masks at a medical supply store, to wear as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Brazil's government confirmed on Wednesday that a Brazilian man who traveled to Italy this month has Latin America's first confirmed case of the contagious new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

New coronavirus reaches Latin America, first case in Brazil

By MARCELO DE SOUSA and MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press