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U.K. is first country in Europe to pass 100K deaths. EU demands vaccine makers honor their commitments. Virus variant brings new dimension to Europe’s pandemic fight. Some hospitals near capacity in hard-hit areas as Indonesia hits 1 million virus cases. Taiwan quarantines 5,000 people while looking for source of hospital cluster. Follow all of AP’s pandemic coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic, https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-vaccine and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak
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MONTPELIER, Vt. Vermont Gov. Phil Scott and two other top administration officials are going to be tested again Tuesday for the virus that causes COVID-19.
Nurse Novita Sirait, right, gives a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine to a colleague at a community health center in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
A man wearing mask to help curb the spread of coronavirus outbreak prays at a mosque in Tangerang, Indonesia, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
A woman walks past a coronavirus-themed mural honoring health workers in Tangerang, Indonesia, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) A man walks past a coronavirus-themed mural in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. Indonesia has reported more cases of the virus than any other countries in Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
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January 26, 2021
WASHINGTON President Joe Biden is announcing that the U.S. is purchasing an additional 100 million doses each of the two approved coronavirus vaccines for delivery this summer, with the government expecting to be able to deliver enough of the two-dose regimens to states this summer to vaccinate 300 million people.
The additional purchases from drugmakers Pfizer and Moderna come as the Biden administration is trying to ramp up vaccine production and states’ capacities to inject them into arms. Biden is also announcing that vaccine deliveries to states and territories will be boosted to at least 10 million doses per week over the next three weeks.
The Latest: Kamala Harris receives 2nd COVID-19 vaccine dose
January 26, 2021
WASHINGTON Vice President Kamala Harris has received the second dose of her COVID-19 vaccine.
Harris was given the shot Tuesday at the National Institutes of Health by nurse Judy Lai Yee Chan, who is chief of the NIH’s COVID-19 vaccine clinic. After receiving the shot, Harris joked, “when are you gonna put it in?” She called it “relatively painless.”
Both she and President Joe Biden got the vaccine live on television to help alleviate public resistance to the vaccine and reassure Americans of its safety. On Tuesday, Harris encouraged Americans to get the vaccine, describing it as “something that will save your life and the life of your family and the community.”