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Here s the latest from around the world overnight on the pandemic.
Asia-Pacific
India
Vital medical supplies began to reach India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, and a surge in infections pushed the death toll close to 200,000.
India s 323,144 new cases over the past 24 hours stood below a worldwide peak of 352,991 hit on Monday, and 2771 new deaths took the toll to 197,894. But the fewer confirmed infections were reportedly largely due to a drop in testing.
Authorities in Delhi ordered a luxury hotel to be converted into a COVID-19 health facility for the exclusive use of high court judges and their families, drawing outrage in a city that has no hospital beds or life-saving oxygen for hundreds of people.
Kazakhstan begins rollout of homegrown QazVac vaccine â The Guardian 27 April 2021 14:21 Share in:
NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - Kazakhstan has rolled out its homegrown coronavirus vaccine, with the central Asian countryâs health minister receiving the jab on live television. QazCovid-in, also known as QazVac, is a two-shot vaccine that is in third-stage trials, The Guardian reports. Related news
Agence France-Presse reports that state broadcaster Khabar said 50,000 doses of the vaccine developed by the state-backed Research Institute for Biological Safety Problems have been distributed across the country.
Health minister Alexei Tsoi told Khabar he felt «well» after receiving his shot and said the government was negotiating with partners in Turkey to produce future batches of the vaccine.
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