PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) Cambodia is shutting its most popular tourist destination, the centuries-old Angkor temple complex, to visitors for two weeks to help curb the country’s coronavirus.
NEW DELHI (AP) â Indiaâs prime minister received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as the country hit another peak Thursday with 126,789 new cases reported in the past 24 hours.
âVaccination is among the few ways we have to defeat the virus. If you are eligible for the vaccine, get your shot soon,â Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted. He received his first vaccine shot on March 1.
India started its vaccination drive in January. So far, more than 90 million health workers and Indians older than 45 have received at least one shot. Only 11 million of them have received both doses as India tries to build immunity to protect its nearly 1.4 billion people.
Asia Today: Modi gets 2nd vaccine dose as India hits record
April 8, 2021
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1of3A woman poses for a photograph behind a cutout after receiving a COVID- 19 vaccine at a government hospital in Noida, a suburb of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. India hits another new peak with 115,736 coronavirus cases reported in the past 24 hours with New Delhi, Mumbai and dozens of other cities imposing night curfews to check the soaring infections.Altaf Qadri/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3A woman along with her children wait for a train at Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. India hits another new peak with 115,736 coronavirus cases reported in the past 24 hours with New Delhi, Mumbai and dozens of other cities imposing night curfews to check the soaring infections.Rafiq Maqbool/APShow MoreShow Less
Asia Today: Modi gets 2nd vaccine dose as India hits record April 7, 2021 at 10:39 pm In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, residents wait in line to receive COVID-19 vaccines in Ruili, southwestern China s Yunnan Province, April 1, 2021. COVID-19 cases in the southwestern Chinese city of Ruili bordering on Myanmar have now topped 100 on Monday, April 5, 2021. That comes as authorities have launched an aggressive campaign to vaccinate all 300,000 residents of the city, whose outbreak is something of an anomaly in a country that has all-but eliminated local transmission of the virus.(Chen Xinbo/Xinhua via AP)
NEW DELHI (AP) India’s prime minister received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as the country hit another peak Thursday with 126,789 new cases reported in the past 24 hours.
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