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Column: Athletes can get in line for vaccines like everyone
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Column: Athletes can get in line for vaccines like everyone

The world may yet gather in Tokyo this summer for an Olympics already postponed once because of the pandemic. Listen…
WHO team in Wuhan departs quarantine for COVID origins study
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WHO team in Wuhan departs quarantine for COVID origins study

WUHAN, China (AP) — A World Health Organization team emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday…
Tokyo Olympic Q&A: Officials try to explain how games happen
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Tokyo Olympic Q&A: Officials try to explain how games happen

TOKYO (AP) — With calls for a cancellation mounting, pressure is building on Japanese organizers and the IOC to explain…
Asia Today: Taiwan quarantines 5,000 after hospital cluster
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Asia Today: Taiwan quarantines 5,000 after hospital cluster

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Health authorities in Taiwan are quarantining 5,000 people while looking for the source of two new…
Japan likely to hit COVID-19 herd immunity in October, months after Olympics: researcher
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Japan likely to hit COVID-19 herd immunity in October, months after Olympics: researcher

(Reuters) – Japan is likely to achieve herd immunity to COVID-19 through mass inoculations only months after the planned Tokyo…
China pushes fringe theories on pandemic origins, virus
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China pushes fringe theories on pandemic origins, virus

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese state media have played up questions about Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and whether it could be…
Ruling Communist Party to set Vietnam’s course this week
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Ruling Communist Party to set Vietnam’s course this week

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Almost 1,600 leading members of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party meet this week to approve future policy…
Year after lockdown, Wuhan dissident more isolated than ever
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Year after lockdown, Wuhan dissident more isolated than ever

WUHAN, China (AP) — One year after lockdown, Wuhan has long since sprung back to life — but Zhu Tao…
The Latest: New virus clusters hit China’s north provinces
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The Latest: New virus clusters hit China’s north provinces

BEIJING — A Chinese city has brought 2,600 temporary treatment rooms online as the country’s north battles new clusters of…
Wuhan returns to normal as world still battling pandemic
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Wuhan returns to normal as world still battling pandemic

WUHAN, China (AP) — A year ago, a notice sent to smartphones in Wuhan at 2 a.m. announced the world’s…
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