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Two million doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19 arrive in Rio de Janeiro, after they were brought from India via Sao Paulo. IMAGES
New Delhi residents receive a Covid-19 vaccine dose in a vaccination centre as India administered its billionth jab on Thursday, half a year after a devastating surge in cases brought the health system close to collapse. IMAGES
Taiwan receives 2.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine from the US at the Taoyuan International Airport, with health officials holding up signs saying 'thank you'. The move is likely to draw disapproval from Beijing, which claims the self-ruled island. IMAGES
The United States commits to donating 80 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine abroad by the end of the month, White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients says during a news briefing. "We will continue to donate additional doses across the summer months as supply becomes available," Zients says. SOUNDBITE
India will manufacture at least one billion more Covid-19 vaccine doses by the end of next year in a joint initiative announced with the United States, Japan and Australia. Following the nations' first four-way summit, President Joe Biden's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, says the so-called Quad have made a "massive joint commitment" to vaccines, committing to "delivering up to one billion doses to ASEAN, the Indo-Pacific and beyond by the end of 2022." SOUNDBITE
Thousands of demonstrators from across the US march in Washington, DC, to decry Covid-19 mandates. Mostly maskless, the protesters walk from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in a city that has adopted mask and vaccine mandates. IMAGES
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