Here are summaries of the latest Associated Press stories worldwide on the coronavirus pandemic, including: U.S. states scramble to catch up on vaccination
Beijing China is moving ahead with two more COVID-19 vaccines in the regulatory process, one from state-owned company Sinopharm and another from a private company CanSino.
Both vaccines have submitted been to regulators for approval this week. CanSino said that Chinese regulators are reviewing its application for its COVID-19 vaccine, in a stock filing on Wednesday. Sinopharm’s subsidiary the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products announced Wednesday that it had submitted an application Sunday and that regulators were reviewing it.
China already has approved two vaccines that it has been using in a mass immunization campaign. One of them is also from Sinopharm, but it was developed by its Beijing subsidiary. The other is the Sinovac vaccine.
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. CVS and Walgreens drugstores will start doling out COVID-19 vaccinations in more states on Thursday.
The drugstore chains say they have received additional vaccine doses from the federal government after they used up their initial allotment. Both companies started giving out vaccines on Feb. 12 to eligible customers at stores in several states.
CVS Health Corp. says it will add stores in six states, including Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania to a list of 11 that includes big markets like California, New York and Texas. The Woonsocket, Rhode Island, company received another 570,000 doses from the government.
Walgreens said late last week that it will receive an additional 480,000 doses to distribute at its stores. The company will expand into California, Oregon and Virginia, among other states.
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Announced by the Portuguese government as being of a humanitarian nature, the repatriation flight between Portugal and Brazil, scheduled for next Saturday (27), had one-way tickets offered for more than R $ 10,000 on the airline’s website.
A report from the Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Notícias found even higher values, up to 1,180 euros (around R $ 11,800) for the trip between Guarulhos and Lisbon. After publication, the price no longer appears on the website of TAP, which operates the flight.
In the opposite direction, the trip between Lisbon and São Paulo, scheduled for Friday (26), included one-way tickets costing around 850 euros (around R $ 5,600).