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LONDON (AP) — Britain is expanding a coronavirus vaccination program that has seen almost 6 million people get the first of two doses — even as the country’s death toll in the pandemic approaches 100,000.

Norway has upped its estimate of the number of people who have died after receiving the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine to 29, Bloomberg reported this weekend.

A few days after attempting to dismiss disappointing test results from Brazil on China’s Sinovac vaccine candidate for the Chinese coronavirus, Chinese state media turned to attacking Sinovac’s American competitors Pfizer and Moderna, calling for a worldwide ban on Pfizer’s vaccine after 23 elderly Norwegians died, ostensibly from reactions to the Pfizer shots.

Norway’s health authority reported Thursday that at least 13 people have died from complications after receiving the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.

Israel on Sunday rolled out the second stage of its vaccination drive, the world’s fastest, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcing people over the age of 60 — of which 72 percent have received the first dose —  would receive a booster shot while the over-50s would receive the initial dose.

An NHS doctor has claimed that patients are refusing the American/German Pfizer-BioNTech injection to “wait for the English one” instead.

Iran will not import American Pfizer-BioNTech or Britain’s Astrazeneca coronavirus vaccines, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced Friday.

Israel has administered more vaccines to its population — more than one in nine Israelis have received the first dose — than any other country in the world by a large margin, and here’s why.

Of the one million Israelis vaccinated against coronavirus so far, 250 have been diagnosed with the virus days after getting the shot.

Over one-third of Americans believe the media exaggerated the threat of the Chinese coronavirus, although 50 percent approve of the media’s overall coverage, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday found.

Over 2 million people in the United States have received a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines threatened to cut ties between his nation’s military and America’s – in existence since the Philippines declared independence from Spain – this weekend if Washington did not ship Manila at least 20 million doses of experimental vaccines for the Chinese coronavirus.

The world should look to China for its coronavirus vaccines and ignore the alternatives, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) warned Thursday, adding that to do otherwise is an explicit example of racism.

More than one million Americans have received a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper warned Europe that purchasing American-made Chinese coronavirus vaccines was “risky” and that, without significantly transforming “the Western system and lifestyle,” policies to contain the pandemic would fail.

Dr. Anthony Fauci revealed Tuesday he would get vaccinated with the recently approved Moderna coronavirus vaccine.

The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will receive the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in January, which will also be made available to the 800 residents and nearly 3,000 workers of the small city-state.

President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden will receive a coronavirus vaccine publicly on Monday, according to his team.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, documenting the process Friday evening.

Several states may receive less Pfizer vaccines next week than initially promised, prompting Pfizer to blame the delay on the federal government.

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Thursday voted to recommend the emergency use approval of the Moderna vaccine.

Germany’s fourth-term Chancellor, Angela Merkel, banged her podium in the German parliament and spoke of families’ “last Christmas with the grandparents” as she moves to shut down the country. 66-year-old Merkel, widely regarded as the most powerful and influential leader

Veteran actor Sir Ian McKellen claims he is feeling “euphoric” after becoming one of the first people in the world to receive the new Pfizer vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus. 

Denying urgent access to first batch of virus vaccine to “essential” illegals before general public racist, advocate says.

A health worker in Alaska experienced a “serious reaction” and was subsequently hospitalized after receiving a dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved last week, according to reports.

The number of Americans willing to take a vaccine for the novel coronavirus has increased in the last two months, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released Tuesday showed.

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group, a Chinese pharmaceutical group, announced Wednesday it had inked a deal with German company BioNTech to purchase 100 million doses of the Chinese coronavirus vaccine it had developed with American company Pfizer — the first vaccine approved for use in the United States.

A nurse who works at a Queens hospital is now among the first in the United States to have received Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine.

In a Tuesday appearance on FNC’s “Fox & Friends First,” Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) thrust his support behind the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine after it was shipped out across the nation to hospitals in recent days, calling it “good news.”

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters his second day of quarantine after meeting with a coronavirus carrier, his strategic advisor Aaron Klein told i24NEWS the Israeli leader’s policy is to purchase as many vaccines as possible.

A nurse in New York received one of the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine recently approved by U.S. regulators.  

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Monday touted the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine’s historic rollout as the first doses were shipped out the previous morning.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Monday discussed the historic rollout of the coronavirus vaccine. Trucks delivering the vaccine to UPS and FedEx, which will then ship out to 636 predetermined locations in all 50 states, left Pfizer’s Michigan headquarters early Sunday morning.

Workers at Pfizer’s Michigan headquarters paused for a moment and erupted into a round of applause early Sunday morning as the first shipments of the coronavirus vaccine were being moved to a loading dock.

The teams behind Britain’s Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine and Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine will join forces to see if their coronavirus prophylactics work better in combination.

Operation Warp Speed Chief Operating Officer Gen. Gustave Perna said the first shipments of the Pfizer vaccine will arrive Monday morning.