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Vietnam to expand movement curbs as Covid-19 cases hit record high

HANOI (REUTERS) – Vietnam will impose movement restrictions in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho for 14 days starting on Monday (July 12), the government said, as the South-east Asian country battles its worst outbreak of the pandemic. The city of 1.23 million people in the far south has reported seven infections over the […]

BioNTech had planned 5 million Covid-19 vaccines to Taiwan by July, diplomat says

TAIPEI (REUTERS) – BioNTech SE had planned to send Taiwan five million Covid-19 vaccine doses by July under an original deal which collapsed in January, Taipei’s top diplomat in Berlin said on Tuesday (July 13), detailing how the highly politicised agreement came apart. Taiwan had tried for months to get the vaccine from the German […]

BioNTech had planned 5 million Covid-19 vaccines to Taiwan by July, diplomat says

TAIPEI (REUTERS) – BioNTech SE had planned to send Taiwan five million Covid-19 vaccine doses by July under an original deal which collapsed in January, Taipei’s top diplomat in Berlin said on Tuesday (July 13), detailing how the highly politicised agreement came apart. Taiwan had tried for months to get the vaccine from the German […]

South Korea’s top baseball league halts its season after 5 players are infected.

Last summer, as Major League Baseball reeled from coronavirus outbreaks and canceled games, its analog in South Korea became a poster child of how to successfully hold spectator sports in a pandemic. Now the roles are reversed. As M.L.B. prepared to hold its All-Star Game, canceled last year, in front of a capacity crowd in […]