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In this Monday, May 24, 2021 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a bilateral meeting with Swiss Interior and Health Minister Alain Berset before signing a BioHub Initiative with a global Covid-19 Pathogen repository in Spiez laboratory on the sideline of the opening of the 74th World Health Assembly, WHA, at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP, File)

WHO expected to grant emergency approval to one or two more COVID-19 vaccines

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People stand in queues while they wait their turn to receive the first shot of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, May 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

The Latest: Utility regulator shares discredited theories

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A health worker takes a man's pulse after giving him a shot of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at the Universidad Publica de El Alto, during a vaccination drive for people over 60, in El Alto, Bolivia, Thursday, May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

The Latest: Connecticut data show COVID-19 vaccine effective

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In this Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 file photo, a medical worker poses with a vial of the Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine in Belgrade, Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, file) **FILE**

Sinopharm, China’s COVID-19 vaccine, wins WHO approval for emergency use

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures after meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines Wednesday, May 5, 2021. The Philippine president has asked China to get back 1,000 doses of donated Sinopharm vaccine after facing criticisms for allowing himself to be injected with it although it has not yet been authorized for public use in the country. (Simeon Celi/Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division via AP)

Asia Today: Fiji sequesters hospital staff after COVID death

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People wait after being vaccinated at the center for mass vaccination against COVID-19, at A1 Arena in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. The European Union started delivering EU-funded coronavirus vaccines Tuesday to the Balkans, a region that wants to join the 27-nation bloc but where China and Russia have already been supplying the much-needed shots and making political gains. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

North Macedonia speeds up vaccinations as EU aid arrives

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North Macedonia looks to Chinese vaccine to revive program

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Chinese residents, some wearing masks, pass by a coronavirus vaccination center in Beijing Friday, April 9, 2021. In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country's top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to give them a boost. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China coronavirus vaccines ‘don’t have very high protection rates’

By Joe McDonald and Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

A worker opens a package of coronavirus vaccine made by a Sinopharm subsidiary during a COVID-19 vaccination session for resident foreign journalists at a vaccination center in Beijing, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Chinese medical firm Sinovac said its COVID-19 vaccine is safe in children ages 3-17, based on preliminary data, and it has submitted the data to Chinese drug regulators. State-owned Sinopharm, who has two COVID-19 vaccines, is also investigating the effectiveness of its vaccines in children. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Top Chinese official admits vaccines have low effectiveness

By JOE McDONALD and HUIZHONG WU - Associated Press

UAE sends Syria aid to help it fight spread of coronavirus

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Maria Castrejon, 71, grimaces as she is vaccinated with a second dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine at the Americas Cultural Center, in Ecatepec, Mexico, Saturday, April 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

Mexico’s vaccine campaign faces problems, successes

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In this photo provided by the Serbian Presidential Press Service, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic receives a dose of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine in the village of Rudna Glava, Serbia, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Vucic finally rolled up his sleeve for a coronavirus vaccine Tuesday and to encourage his country's increasingly skeptical Serbs to get vaccinated themselves. (Serbian Presidential Press Service via AP)

Serbia’s leader chooses Chinese-made vaccine for own shot

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Worshippers celebrate a Good Friday service at the Marktkirche in Hanover, Germany, Friday, April 2, 2021. Despite the Corona pandemic and numerous contact restrictions, the churches are allowed to celebrate services around Easter. ( Julian Stratenschulte/dpa via AP)

The Latest: SKorea’s daily virus increase tops 500 again

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In this photo taken Tuesday, March 23, 2021, a medical worker wearing protective gear waits for people to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Belgrade, Serbia. The Serbian police brought for questioning on Thursday a known Serbian doctor and some other vocal anti-vaccination activists, saying they are jeopardizing the Balkan country's so-far successful coronavirus inoculation drive. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Serbia cracks down on anti-vaccination activists

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People wait in line to receive a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine at Belgrade Fair makeshift vaccination center in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, March 27, 2021. Thousands of vaccine-seekers from Serbia's neighboring states have flocked to Belgrade after Serbian authorities offered free coronavirus jabs for foreigners if they show up over the weekend. Many arriving with their entire families, long lines of Bosnians, Montenegrins, North Macedonians and even Albanians formed Saturday in front of the main vaccination center in the Serbian capital. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Foreigners flock to Serbia to get coronavirus vaccine shots

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People wait in a queue to get a shot of the sinopharm coronavirus vaccination, at Wilkins Hospital in Harare, Wednesday, March, 24, 2021. Zimbabwe is rolling out its COVID-19 inoculation programme and in the first phase is targeting health care workers and the elderly. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe’s president gets shot of Sinovac in Victoria Falls

By FARAI MUTSAKA - Associated Press

A man wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus receives a shot of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine at a community health center in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province on Monday, March 15, 2021. Sinovac said its COVID-19 vaccine is safe in children ages 3-17, based on preliminary data, and it has submitted the data to Chinese drug regulators for approval. More than 70 million shots of Sinovac's vaccine have been given worldwide, including in China. (Chinatopix Via AP)

Sinovac says its vaccine is safe for children as young as 3

By HUIZHONG WU - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2021, file photo, airport employees unload the first shipment of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine after it arrived at the international airport in El Alto, Bolivia. Russia’s boast in August that it was the first country to authorize a coronavirus vaccine led to skepticism because of its insufficient testing on only a few dozen people. Now, with demand growing for the Sputnik V, experts are raising questions again, this time over whether Moscow can keep up with all the orders from countries that want it. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)

The Latest: Sinovac: CoronaVac vaccine effective in children

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FILE - In this March 10, 2021 file photo, a health worker prepares a Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Egypt on Saturday, March 20, received a second shipment of coronavirus vaccine donated by China, officials said, as the country tries to speed up its vaccination campaign. The 300,000-dose shipment of the vaccine manufactured by China's state-owned pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm arrived at Cairo’s international airport early Saturday, according to the Health Ministry. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad, File)

Egypt receives 2nd shipment of vaccine as gift from China

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

China aims to vaccinate 70-80% of population by mid-2022

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