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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: A team of experts from the World Health Organization leave quarantine in Wuhan to begin a heavily scrutinised probe into the origins of the pandemic, after Washington urged a "robust and clear" investigation. German Chancellor Angela Merkel calls a high-level meeting next week with Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers, as tempers flare over the European Union's sluggish rollout of the shots. Germany's vaccine commission says it can not recommend the use of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine for people over 65. The UK-based company says the latest clinical trial data for its vaccine developed with Oxford University "support efficacy in the over 65 years age group". The EU's medicines regulator recommends medics leave three weeks between doses of the Pfizer/BionTech coronavirus vaccine -- rather than at least three weeks. Britain, the first country to authorise the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, has said it will leave a gap of up to 12 weeks between doses in order to vaccinate more people. US officials report a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus first identified in South Africa has been detected for the first time on US soil, in South Carolina, among two adults with no travel history and no connection to each other. The United States economy shrunk by 3.5 percent last year, its worst contraction since 1946, as the Covid-19 pandemic shut down large sectors of business and daily life. The African Union has secured an additional 400 million doses of vaccines for its members. Vietnam records its first outbreak in almost two months, with more than 80 new cases reported as authorities begin testing tens of thousands of people to contain the spread. The first Tokyo Olympics test event of 2021, swimming's final qualifier for the virus-postponed Games, is postponed from March to May because of travel restrictions under Japan's coronavirus state of emergency. At least 2,176,000 people have died of coronavirus since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to an AFP tally from official sources. More than 100,829,878 cases have been registered. The US has suffered the highest toll with 429,202 deaths, followed by Brazil with 220,161 and India with 153,847. The number of deaths globally is underestimated. The toll is calculated from daily figures published by national health authorities and does not include later revisions by statistics agencies. burs-eab-jmy/har
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