Live COVID-19 updates: China, Indonesia pledge cooperation on COVID-19 vaccine
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BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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JAKARTA -- Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Indonesia's Coordinator for Cooperation with China Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan in North Sumatra on Tuesday, expressing willingness to cooperate with Indonesia on COVID-19 vaccine, major economic projects, digital development and marine safety.
As both major developing countries, China and Indonesia should work together, support each other and deepen cooperation, which are of strategic significance to safeguarding regional peace and development and promoting world stability and prosperity, Wang said.
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JAKARTA -- Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday received the COVID-19 vaccine shot developed by China's biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech.
The president, widely known as Jokowi, is the first Indonesian vaccinated to show that the vaccine is safe.
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CANBERRA -- Australian Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said on Wednesday that he was "concerned" that debate around the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines could undermine public confidence.
The Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology recently called for the Australian government to pause its planned rollout of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccines, saying it may not be effective enough to generate herd immunity to the virus.
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit a new single-day record of nearly 4,500, Johns Hopkins University said on Tuesday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil registered 1,110 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 204,690, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday.
The country confirmed 64,025 new cases, taking the nationwide count to 8,195,637, it added.
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BEIJING -- The Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 115 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, of whom 107 were locally transmitted and the rest arrived from outside the mainland, the National Health Commission said Wednesday.
Of the locally transmitted cases, 90 were reported in north China's Hebei Province, 16 in Heilongjiang Province and one in Shanxi Province, the commission said in its daily report. Enditem
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