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A health worker shows a vial of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as Thailand start a mass inoculation at a gymnasium inside the Thammasat University in Pathum Thani, Thailand June 7, 2021. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

Thailand scraps plan for 16-week dose gap on AstraZeneca vaccine

Thailand started its mass Covid-19 immunisation campaign last week and has administered 7.2 million doses since February

The Twitter App loads on an iPhone in this illustration photograph taken in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 22, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo/File Photo
South Asia

Twitter’s India woes worsen as police summon chief over viral video

A passenger wearing a protective face mask walks past a sign indicating to keep the social distancing at Fiumicino Airport, one of the two airports in the world to obtain the 'Biosafety Trust certification' for the correct application of security measures to prevent infections, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Rome, Italy June 30, 2020. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

Italy imposes quarantine on UK visitors, opens door to USA, Canada, Japan and EU

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Coronavirus chronicle

UK's Johnson 'very confident' about lifting restrictions on 19 July

A vial and sryinge are seen in front of a displayed AstraZeneca logo in this illustration taken January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Coronavirus chronicle

EU loses bid for speedier AstraZeneca vaccine deliveries

Chinese astronauts Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming salute before the launch of the Long March-2F Y12 rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and the three astronauts, from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center for China's first manned mission to build its space station, near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China June 17, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
China

Chinese astronauts board space station module in historic mission

Migrants disembark the ship 'Geo Barents' run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which was given permission to dock at the Sicilian port of Augusta after a week of waiting at sea, to board the quarantine ship 'Aurelia', in Augusta, Italy, June 18, 2021. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello
Europe

Hundreds of migrants rescued by MSF charity land in Sicily

French President Emmanuel Macron listens to French war veteran Leon Gautier, a member of the Kieffer commando, during a D-Day commemoration ceremony in memory of marines and the famed Kieffer commandos who took part in D-Day landings, in Colleville-Montgomery, France June 6, 2019. Francois Mori/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Europe

France honours last survivor of French D-Day commando unit

A sign marks a Biogen facility, some of whose employees have tested positive for the coronavirus after attending a meeting in Boston, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., March 9, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
World+Biz

Rival treatments may help justify FDA gamble with Biogen Alzheimer’s drug

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev attend a signing ceremony in Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh region, Azerbaijan June 15, 2021. Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS
World+Biz

Russia monitoring talk of Turkish military base in Azerbaijan, says Kremlin

Rescue workers search for bodies after a boat with 46 migrants from the Maghreb region capsized in the beach of Orzola, in the Canary Island of Lanzarote, Spain June 18, 2021. REUTERS/Borja Suarez
Europe

Dozens of migrants rescued after boat runs aground on Spain's Lanzarote

Shopkeepers wait to open their stores at a market area after authorities eased lockdown restrictions that were imposed to slow down the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, June 7, 2021. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Coronavirus chronicle

Experts urge India's richest state to gear up for third wave of Covid-19

Shoppers walk down Hohe Strasse shopping district one day before Germany goes back to a complete lockdown due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Cologne, Germany, December 15, 2020. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen
Coronavirus chronicle

Delta variant of coronavirus seen dominant in Germany by autumn