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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: China has approved the Sinovac vaccine for children as young as three, the drugmaker told AFP, but has yet to decide when to roll them out for schoolkids. Vietnam is asking its people to donate money to help buy shots as it struggles with a new spike in infections with only one percent of its population vaccinated. Dozens of celebrities including American singer Katy Perry and footballer David Beckham urge rich nations to share vaccines with poorer countries ahead of a G7 summit in Britain this weekend. Foreign journalists at the Tokyo Olympics will have their movements tracked by GPS and could have their passes revoked if they break the rules, the Games president says. Tokyo's Tsukiji market, site of the world-famous dawn tuna auction, becomes the city's latest mass vaccination site, with first responders lining up for their shots. Haiti postpones a constitutional referendum scheduled for June 27 due to the pandemic, but with no new date for the vote, as the political crisis deepens in the poorest country in the Americas. A subsidiary of tech giant Foxconn that supplies brands like Apple temporarily suspends operations after six foreign workers test positive in latest outbreak within the key industry. More than a million Mexican schoolchildren return to classroom for the first time in more than a year as lockdown eases. The Czech Republic will reopen its borders to EU and Serbian citizens on June 21. The Central European country had the world's highest death and infection rate per capita for months. More than a million Europeans have already got an EU Covid certificate to allow them to travel within the bloc, the European Commission says as the vaccine passport is voted into law. The pandemic has killed at least 3,739,777 people worldwide since the virus first emerged in December 2019, according to an AFP compilation of official data. The US is the worst-affected country with 597,952 deaths, followed by Brazil with 474,414, India with 351,309, Mexico with 228,838, Peru with 186,757 and Britain with 127,841. The figures are based on reports by health authorities in each country, but do not take into account upward revisions carried out later by statistical bodies. The WHO says up to three times more people have died directly or indirectly due to the pandemic than official figures suggest. burs-eab/fg/yad
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