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Greece Lifts Curbs; India Daily Cases Top 200,000: Virus Update Bloomberg 13 mins ago Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) India reported more than 200,000 new infections on Thursday its highest one-day surge since the pandemic broke out. A senior official in Japan’s ruling party indicated that canceling the Tokyo Olympics was an option as cases in the city rose to the highest in more than two months.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel ended discussion of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine without taking a vote, while J&J itself said it continues to believe in the positive benefit-risk profile of its Covid-19 shot.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian authorities should add more clinics to speed up the country’s struggling COVID-19 vaccine rollout, its main medical association said on Thursday, dismissing a government plan to create mass inoculation hubs as unworkable in the near term.
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A healthcare professional prepares a dose of the Pfizer coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine as high-risk workers receive the first vaccines in the state of Victoria s rollout of the program, in Melbourne, Australia, February 22, 2021. REUTERS/Sandra Sanders
Australian Medical Association (AMA) President Omar Khorshid said establishing mass centres would pose “huge logistical challenges”, including the difficulty of finding enough medical staff to manage the facilities.
CDC’s J&J Talk Ends Without Vote; India Case Surge: Virus Update Bloomberg 58 mins ago Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) India reported more than 200,000 new infections on Thursday its highest one-day surge since the pandemic broke out. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel ended discussion of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine without taking a vote, while J&J itself said it continues to believe in the positive benefit-risk profile of its Covid-19 shot.
A senior official in Japan’s ruling party indicated that canceling the Tokyo Olympics was an option, as the country struggles with a surge in coronavirus cases, according to a media report. Thailand is considering imposing a partial lockdown in Bangkok and other provinces after coronavirus cases rose by a record this week, the Bangkok Post said.