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      <text>The German Standing Committee on Vaccination recommends that all children aged 12 to 17 years old to receive a COVID-19 vaccine due to increased risks among them posed by the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant and further vaccine's safety data. </text>
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    <text>The German Standing Committee on Vaccination recommends that all children between the ages of 12 and 17 receive a COVID-19 vaccine due to increased risks posed by the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant. </text>
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      <text>New Zealand surpasses two million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines administered, with almost 770,000 people having been fully vaccinated. </text>
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      <text>New Zealand surpasses two million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines administered, with almost 770,000 people have been fully vaccinated. </text>
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    <text>New Zealand surpasses two million doses of COVID-19 vaccine administrations, with almost 770,000 people having been fully vaccinated. </text>
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      <text>The German Standing Committee on Vaccination recommends only children and teenagers with pre-existing illness conditions can be given the shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine due to lack of data and long-term effects. </text>
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    <text>The German Standing Committee on Vaccination recommends that only children and teenagers with pre-existing illness conditions be given a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine due to lack of data on the vaccine's long-term effects. </text>
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    <text>Germany administers a record 1.1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in the last 24 hours. </text>
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      <text>German health authorities suspends the use of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine in people under the age of 60 after new data showing a rise in unusual blood clots in the head was released. </text>
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    <text>German health authorities suspend the use of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine in people under the age of 60 after new data showing a rise in unusual blood clots in the head was released. </text>
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      <text>The authorities extends the compulsory quarantine in designed hotels to 21 days for visitors outside China, Macau, and Taiwan starting tomorrow and bans all people who stayed in South Africa over the past 21 days to enter Hong Kong in order to prevent the spread of new variants of SARS-CoV-2. </text>
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    <text>The authorities extends the compulsory quarantine in designed hotels to 21 days for visitors from outside China, Macau, and Taiwan beginning tomorrow and also ban all people who stayed in South Africa over the past 21 days from entering Hong Kong in order to prevent the spread of new variants of SARS-CoV-2. </text>
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      <text>Singapore and Hong Kong postpone their air travel bubble agreement for two weeks amid rise of COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong, which reports 43 new cases. </text>
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    <text>Singapore and Hong Kong postpone their air travel bubble agreement for two weeks amid a rise in COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong, which reported 43 new cases in the past 24 hours. </text>
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  <subtext>Border restrictions with Hong Kong and Macao will also be eased, with eligible visitors taking a COVID-19 test on arrival instead of serving a stay-home notice in Singapore.</subtext>
  <text>Singapore begins reopening of its borders with the launch of Vaccinated Travel Lanes (VTL) for fully vaccinated travellers from Germany and Brunei, while quarantine-free restrictions will be eased for travelers of Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China (except Jiangsu Province), New Zealand and Taiwan. </text>
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