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A man wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks past a mural displayed at Shibuya station in Tokyo. The sculpture in relief titled "Hachiko Family" was designed by Ryutaro Kitahara and sculpted by Louis Fransen. AP Photo
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Healthcare workers take part in a rehearsal for the administration of the Pfizer vaccine at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis, Indiana, US. Reuters
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Program Director Mary Kay Foster describes the work of healthcare workers taking part in a rehearsal for the administration of the Pfizer vaccine at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis, Indiana, US. Reuters
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Safely separated by a storefront window, a person dressed as Santa speaks via telephone to greet Brooke Hayslette and her four-year-old daughter Kinsley amid the coronavirus pandemic, in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US. Reuters
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Doctor Joseph Varon (L) and other medical staff members perform an intubation procedure on a patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas. AFP
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People wait in line at the St. Clements Food Pantry in New York. Reuters
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Hilton Pacheco gives a customer her take-out order at Rao's restaurant in East Harlem, New York City. Rao's, NYC’s oldest restaurants and the city’s hardest-to-book reservation, is offering takeout for the first time in the restaurant's 124 year history. AFP
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Doctor Jesse Erasmus walks past scientific freezers that can reach ultra-low temperatures of minus 80 degrees celsius, -80°c, in a microbiology lab at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. Erasmus is holding serum samples collected from animals that received a replicon, or replicating, RNA vaccine being developed to combat Covid-19. Scientists are hoping this nucleic acid vaccine will only need one dose to be effective and that it won't need to be stored in a deep freeze. AFP
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A medical worker takes samples at a mobile coronavirus test station in Vilnius, Lithuania. AP Photo
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Rabbi Sholom Krinsky lights a menorah during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, at the Kudirkos square in Vilnius, Lithuania. AP Photo
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A health worker collects swab sample of a policewoman at the site of farmers protest, at the New Delhi - Haryana, Sindhu border, India. EPA
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A man looks out of a train as it arrives at a platform at a railway station in Mumbai, India. Reuters
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An official takes a fingerprint of a recipient of a donation under 'Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme' announced by the Prime Minister Imran Khan, during selective lockdown after new cases of Covid-19 were reported in Hyderabad, Pakistan. EPA
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A man wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks past a mural displayed at Shibuya station in Tokyo. The sculpture in relief titled "Hachiko Family" was designed by Ryutaro Kitahara and sculpted by Louis Fransen. AP Photo
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Healthcare workers take part in a rehearsal for the administration of the Pfizer vaccine at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis, Indiana, US. Reuters
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Program Director Mary Kay Foster describes the work of healthcare workers taking part in a rehearsal for the administration of the Pfizer vaccine at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis, Indiana, US. Reuters
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Safely separated by a storefront window, a person dressed as Santa speaks via telephone to greet Brooke Hayslette and her four-year-old daughter Kinsley amid the coronavirus pandemic, in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US. Reuters
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Doctor Joseph Varon (L) and other medical staff members perform an intubation procedure on a patient in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas. AFP
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People wait in line at the St. Clements Food Pantry in New York. Reuters
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Hilton Pacheco gives a customer her take-out order at Rao's restaurant in East Harlem, New York City. Rao's, NYC’s oldest restaurants and the city’s hardest-to-book reservation, is offering takeout for the first time in the restaurant's 124 year history. AFP
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Doctor Jesse Erasmus walks past scientific freezers that can reach ultra-low temperatures of minus 80 degrees celsius, -80°c, in a microbiology lab at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. Erasmus is holding serum samples collected from animals that received a replicon, or replicating, RNA vaccine being developed to combat Covid-19. Scientists are hoping this nucleic acid vaccine will only need one dose to be effective and that it won't need to be stored in a deep freeze. AFP
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A medical worker takes samples at a mobile coronavirus test station in Vilnius, Lithuania. AP Photo
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Rabbi Sholom Krinsky lights a menorah during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, at the Kudirkos square in Vilnius, Lithuania. AP Photo
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A health worker collects swab sample of a policewoman at the site of farmers protest, at the New Delhi - Haryana, Sindhu border, India. EPA
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A man looks out of a train as it arrives at a platform at a railway station in Mumbai, India. Reuters
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An official takes a fingerprint of a recipient of a donation under 'Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme' announced by the Prime Minister Imran Khan, during selective lockdown after new cases of Covid-19 were reported in Hyderabad, Pakistan. EPA
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A man wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walks past a mural displayed at Shibuya station in Tokyo. The sculpture in relief titled "Hachiko Family" was designed by Ryutaro Kitahara and sculpted by Louis Fransen. AP Photo
Coronavirus: US approves emergency use of Pfizer vaccine
President Donald Trump says first doses will be given over weekend
Associated Press
12 December, 2020
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