Coronavirus: Philippines accelerates vaccination drive as shots arrive from China; Australian city in lockdown

The Philippines expects to ramp up its vaccination drive with the arrival on Monday of the first batch of government-bought doses as more than 10,000 fresh Covid-19 cases, a new record, were tallied and a lockdown reimposed in Manila. President Rodrigo Duterte welcomed the arrival of the first tranche of 1 million Covid-19 doses vaccines bought from China. A total 25 million doses have been procured by the national government from vaccine manufacturer Sinovac. Earlier this month, the country…

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