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    Japanese recipients of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine talk to the press at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building. Despite a slow start, Japan's vaccination efforts have increased and about 11 million people are fully vaccinated. Japan has pledged a million vaccines each to Taiwan and Vietnam. Getty
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    Health workers register people for coronavirus tests at a drive-through centre at Bondi beach in Sydney, New South Wales, as authorities lock down areas of Australia's largest city to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant. AFP
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    Devotees covered in mud and dried banana leaves light candles and pray outside a closed church to celebrate the Taong Putik (mud people) Festival in the village of Bibiclat in Aliaga, Nueva Ecija province, Philippines. Each year, the residents of Bibiclat celebrate the Feast of St John in a little-known Catholic festival that traces its history from the Second World War and tells how rain stopped the killing of 14 villagers by Japanese soldiers in 1944. Getty
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    A medical worker gives a dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to a woman during a vaccination session for people over 75 years of age at a stadium in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Reuters
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    People queue for vaccination against the coronavirus in Depok on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia. The world's fourth most populous country has reported a surge in infections in recent weeks, adding urgency to the government's plan to inoculate a million people each day by next month. AP
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    People walk in Red Square, Moscow, at sunset. A plan to vaccinate 30 million people in Russia by mid-June against the coronavirus has fallen short by a third and daily new infections have surged. AP
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    Wearing an ill-fitting mask against the spread of the coronavirus, a commuter travels by public transport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. AP
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    Students who are preparing to study abroad wait at a coronavirus vaccination centre in a school in New Delhi, India. Bloomberg
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    Healthcare workers inoculate people with the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine outside the Rommel Fernandez Stadium in Panama City, Panama. AP
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    About 400 artists take part in the celebration of the Inti Raymi or Fiesta del Sol (Party of the Sun), in the archaeological complex of Sacsayhuaman, in Cusco, Peru. The Inca celebration marks the beginning of the Andean New Year. EPA

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UAE records 2,223 new cases of Covid-19, in highest daily number of PCR tests

293,212 PCR tests were taken and analysed in the Emirates in the past 24 hours

The National

June 25, 2021

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After nearly 300,000 PCR tests, the UAE recorded 2,223 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday, taking the country’s total number of infections to 622,532.

UAE health services processed 293,212 PCR tests in 24 hours, the highest number since the pandemic started.

New rules in Abu Dhabi require unvaccinated people to test every three days if they want access to public areas like malls. Vaccinated people must test once every 28 days.

Health authorities said another 2,177 patients recovered, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 601,308.

Fatalities stand at 1,782 after seven patients died in the 24-hour reporting period.

There are 19,442 active cases in the country.

The vaccination campaign in the UAE continues, with 105,676 doses given in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of doses to 14,940,031, a rate of vaccine distribution of 151.06 doses per 100 people.

Meanwhile, paediatricians in the UAE warned of a rise in the number of children suffering from the long-term effects of Covid-19.

The symptoms include fatigue, dizziness and brain fog, or the inability to think straight.

Also, a very small number of children who made a recovery from Covid-19 now had a condition called mis-c (multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children), clinicians in the emirates said.

The Pfizer BioNTech vaccine is available in the UAE for children aged 12 to 15, and a Sinopharm trial for younger children is currently under way.

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