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Around 300 coronavirus vaccinations are available in Stoke-on-Trent today.
Initially 600 jabs were available, but 300 have already been booked in by people from across the city.
Harley Street Medical Centre s practice manager Yvonne Bell explained people in the current vaccination cohort, aged 36 and up, would be prioritised for the jabs at the outreach clinic in Moss Green.
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DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal received its first delivery on Wednesday of COVID-19 vaccines, which it purchased from China’s Sinopharm.
Cargo containing China s Sinopharm coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is unloaded from a plane in Diass, Senegal, February 17, 2021, in this still image from video. Video taken February 17, 2021. RTS/Handout via REUTERS
Like other African countries that have struggled to procure vaccines, Senegal turned to China as it awaits disbursements through African Union and World Health Organization-backed (WHO) programmes.
The 200,000 doses, enough to vaccinate 100,000 people, arrived on a chartered Air Senegal flight from Beijing to Dakar, where they were received by President Macky Sall and the Chinese ambassador to Senegal.