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Now playing Next China COVID-19: Chinese official says homegrown vaccines not very powerful Chinese vaccines "don’t have very high protection rates," said the director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, Gao Fu, at a conference Saturday. 11/04/2021
Now playing Next world news EU received only half of AstraZeneca doses it was meant to this week AstraZeneca's deliveries to the European Union have been beset by delays. 09/04/2021
Now playing Next world news EMA launches blood clots probe related to Johnson & Johnson vaccine It comes after the regulator said there was a possible link between very rare cases of blood clots and the AstraZeneca vaccine. 09/04/2021