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Kim Jong-un 'suffered fever' during Covid outbreak
The sister of North Korea's leader also blames South Korea for causing her country's outbreak.
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Kim Jong-un 'suffered fever' during Covid outbreak
The sister of North Korea's leader also blames South Korea for causing her country's outbreak.

Australian Covid app branded expensive 'failure'
The health minister urges people to delete the contact-tracing app, which identified just two infections.

Hong Kong shortens Covid hotel quarantine
Hotel quarantine is to be followed by four days of "medical surveillance" at home or any hotel.

Thousands stranded as 'China's Hawaii' locks down
Over 80,000 tourists in the resort known as "China's Hawaii" face new restrictions and cancelled flights.

North Korea claims to have recovered from Covid
There is widespread scepticism over North Korea's claim to have the world's lowest Covid death rate.

Covid infections continuing to fall around the UK
The number of people with the virus has fallen by more than half a million in a week, statistics show.

New Zealand fully reopens borders after Covid
The country shut its borders in March 2020, a move that majorly impacted the tourism industry.
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Kim Jong-un 'suffered fever' during Covid outbreak
The sister of North Korea's leader also blames South Korea for causing her country's outbreak.

Australian Covid app branded expensive 'failure'
The health minister urges people to delete the contact-tracing app, which identified just two infections.

Hong Kong shortens Covid hotel quarantine
Hotel quarantine is to be followed by four days of "medical surveillance" at home or any hotel.

Thousands stranded as 'China's Hawaii' locks down
Over 80,000 tourists in the resort known as "China's Hawaii" face new restrictions and cancelled flights.

North Korea claims to have recovered from Covid
There is widespread scepticism over North Korea's claim to have the world's lowest Covid death rate.

Covid infections continuing to fall around the UK
The number of people with the virus has fallen by more than half a million in a week, statistics show.

New Zealand fully reopens borders after Covid
The country shut its borders in March 2020, a move that majorly impacted the tourism industry.

Australian Covid app branded expensive 'failure'
The health minister urges people to delete the contact-tracing app, which identified just two infections.

Hong Kong shortens Covid hotel quarantine
Hotel quarantine is to be followed by four days of "medical surveillance" at home or any hotel.

Thousands stranded as 'China's Hawaii' locks down
Over 80,000 tourists in the resort known as "China's Hawaii" face new restrictions and cancelled flights.
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Copyright: ReutersImage caption: Aspen Pharmacare says it will focus on anaesthetics instead A South African firm says it will stop making coronavirus vaccines at the end of the month because it hasn't received a single order.
Aspen Pharmacare's announcement was followed by reassurance from the Africa Centres for Disease Control that it was "doing everything to ensure that those buying vaccines are buying them from Africa".
In March, Aspen signed a deal with Johnson & Johnson to produce 450 million doses per year of its own branded version of a Covid-19 vaccine called Aspenovax.
At the time Aspen’s deal with Johnson & Johnson was called "a game-changer" in providing equitable vaccines to the continent.
The African Union has a target for 60% of all vaccines administered on the continent to be produced locally by 2040. But with only a fifth of Africans vaccinated, that demand has not materialised.
Aspen says it will now be forced to re-purpose some of its production lines to make anaesthetics.
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