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People walk along a pedestrian street in Wuhan, China s central Hubei province on January 23, 2021, one year after the city went into lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (Hector Retamal/AFP)
The Chinese city of Wuhan marked one year since the start of its traumatic 76-day coronavirus lockdown Saturday, while the pandemic raged elsewhere and governments scrambled to put in place new measures.
Around the world, more than 2.1 million people have died of COVID-19 since it emerged in China in December 2019, with over 98 million infected.
But the picture was vastly different in Wuhan, where humming traffic, bustling sidewalks, and citizens packing parks and public transport underscored the scale of the recovery in the metropolis of 11 million where the pathogen first emerged before going global.
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Bucharest: Pfizer has slashed in half the volume of COVID-19 vaccines it will deliver to some EU countries this week, government officials said on Thursday, local time, as frustration over the US drugmaker s unexpected cut in supplies grows.
Romania got only 50 per cent of its planned volume for this week, the other half being allocated gradually by the end of March, with deliveries returning to normal starting next week, Deputy Health Minister Andrei Baciu told Reuters.
A healthcare worker receives a second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine,
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It was a similar situation in Poland which on Monday received 176,000 doses, a drop of around 50 per cent from what was expected, authorities said.
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Maritza Beniquez, a 56-year-old emergency room nurse at University Hospital in Newark, receiving her second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Gov. Phil Murphy and state Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli stand beside her.
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The delivery was coming. It was finally coming.
The first shipment of the new COVID-19 vaccine was in transit, and the director of the University Hospital pharmacy was eager for its arrival at the Newark facility.
It was mid-December, the beginning of the nation’s massive vaccine rollout. And University was among the first hospitals in the state to receive doses.