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Asia shares slip on news US to blacklist more Chinese firms Asian shares slipped on Friday after Reuters reported that the United States is set to add dozens of Chinese companies, including the country s top chipmaker SMIC, to a trade blacklist later in the day.
FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective face masks, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), look at a stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, March 10, 2020. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
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WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 18: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence receives a COVID-19 vaccine to promote the safety and efficacy of the vaccine at the White House on December, 18, 2020 in Washington, DC. Doug Mills Pool/Getty Images/AFP/POOL / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP
Several senior US officials including Vice President Mike Pence got early Covid-19 vaccinations Friday, contrasting with Europe, where two leaders were quarantining after testing positive and EU regulators have yet to approve a vaccine.
Pence’s public inoculation against the coronavirus was the most high-profile attempt yet at persuading vaccine-skeptic Americans to join a massive national effort to halt a pandemic that has killed at least 1.66 million people and infected more than 74 million worldwide.
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President-elect Joe Biden, who will take office on January 20, announced he would take the vaccine, also in public, on Monday. Reuters pic
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WASHINGTON, Dec 19 Several senior US officials including Vice President Mike Pence got early Covid-19 vaccinations yesterday, contrasting with Europe, where two leaders were quarantining after testing positive and EU regulators have yet to approve a vaccine.
Pence’s public inoculation against the coronavirus was the most high-profile attempt yet at persuading vaccine-skeptic Americans to join a massive national effort to halt a pandemic that has killed at least 1.66 million people and infected more than 74 million worldwide.