Pulling out all the stops to showcase their favorite spuds, retailers nationwide fought hard for the highest honors in the Idaho Potato Commission’s 30th annual Idaho Potato Lovers Display Contest. More than $150,000 in cash and prizes were awarded in the 2021 competition, along with the sweepstakes prize: a trip for two to luxurious Sanctuary Camelback Mountain Resort & Spa in Paradise Valley, AZ.
If you want to see an action star age gracefully, you could do a lot worse than Police Story: Lockdown, an uneven but satisfying hostage crisis thriller that is also a perfect example of the type of late-period films martial arts star Jackie Chan has decided to make after entering middle age. Now 61 years old, Chan is simply too old to chase his youth by sustaining numerous life-threatening injuries while making consecutive roles (see my primer on the Police Story films for some more). Chan s recent films are fearless since they do something most Western movie idols either don t know, or don t care to do: make an age-appropriate action film.
BEIJING (CAIXIN GLOBAL) - One year into a pandemic that has claimed more than 2 million lives and left most parts of the world shuttered, people around the globe are counting on effective Covid-19 vaccines to bring back normal life.
At least seven vaccines against the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 have won approval for public or emergency use in several countries, setting off a global race to protect people against the raging virus. About 200 more candidate inoculations are under development, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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At least seven vaccines against the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 have won approval for public or emergency use in several countries
One year into a pandemic that has claimed more than 2 million lives and left most parts of the world shuttered, people around the globe are counting on effective Covid-19 vaccines to bring back normal life.
At least seven vaccines against the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 have won approval for public or emergency use in several countries, setting off a
global race to protect people against the raging virus. About 200 more candidate inoculations are under development, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
More than 31M COVID-19 vaccine doses given in China, Beijing says
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China s National Health Commission said Thursday the country had administered 31,236,000 injections of domestic COVID-19 vaccines. Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI | License Photo
Feb. 4 (UPI) China said it administered more than 31 million doses of domestically developed COVID-19 vaccines since mid-December, inoculating mainly high-risk groups.
Mi Feng, a spokesman for China s National Health Commission, said Thursday that by end of the day before, the country had provided 31,236,000 injections, China Central Television reported Thursday.
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Chinese health officials have previously said they would vaccinate 50 million citizens deemed high risk before the Lunar New Year holidays, from Feb. 11 to 17. The statement issued Thursday did not mention specific vaccines, or whether the vaccine required more than one shot.