Vaccine rollout

Hong Kong suspended use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine because of packaging defects, ranging from cracked containers to loose caps, that were discovered in a single batch.
A hospital on Maui had to throw out nearly 1,400 vaccine doses after a refrigerator was not closed properly, The Associated Press reports.
Turkey will begin administering the Pfizer vaccine after receiving about 1.4 million doses this week.

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The World Health Organization said that virus deaths and cases were on the rise again around the world, as more contagious variants have spread and restrictions were relaxed.
The Associated Press reports that a new and potentially dangerous variant of the coronavirus has been detected in India.
Canadian researchers who scaled up a rapid coronavirus testing program are now trying to replicate its success in the United States.
Germany scrapped an unpopular plan to shut down the country for two extra days over the Easter holidays.
Wealthy Americans are getting inoculated in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where the governor said that about 3 percent of vaccines had gone to tourists.
A Massachusetts company that makes laboratory equipment created an air sampler to monitor airborne pathogens, including the coronavirus.
A new study in the U.K. found that seven in 10 Covid patients had not fully recovered after five months, The Guardian reports.
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