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People queue at a library in Hong Kong's shopping district Causeway Bay as the financial hub kicks off its inoculation drive with the Chinese-made Sinovac coronavirus vaccine. The elderly, frontline workers and medical staff are prioritised at the first stage. The first shipment of one million Sinovac jabs arrived from the mainland last Friday and Chief Executive Carrie Lam and members of her cabinet received their jabs earlier this week. IMAGES
"We are now having 40-plus thousand new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around," warns top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci as he testifies before the Senate. SOUNDBITE
One of the busiest commercial streets in Istanbul, Istiklal Avenue, is deserted as a curfew is imposed in 31 cities in the country. IMAGES
The streets of Tel Aviv lie empty as a full lockdown begins after Israel bans inter-city travel from Tuesday to Friday in order to forestall the spread of coronavirus during the Passover holidays. The COVID-19 disease has so far killed 57 people in the Jewish state and infected more than 8,900, according to official figures. IMAGES
A few joggers exercise on the Trocadero esplanade at dawn on the 23rd day of lockdown in France, just before the enforcement of a ban on individual outdoor sports between the hours of 10:00 am and 07:00 pm. in Paris. IMAGES
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