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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: China hits out at the "dark history" of the US intelligence community after President Joe Biden orders a probe into the origins of the virus which threatens relations between the world's two top economies. French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi and Britain's GSK announce the start of final tests of their belated vaccine as they race to add their jab to the arsenal against the virus. The bloc gives its backing to a "safe and secure" Olympic Games despite calls for the event in Japan in July to be cancelled due to the pandemic. Five million people in Melbourne are ordered into a snap week-long lockdown along with the surrounding state of Victoria, with officials blaming Australia's sluggish vaccine rollout and hotel quarantine failures for yet another outbreak in the country's second-biggest city. Hong Kong police ban next month's vigil marking Beijing's deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown, the second year in a row authorities have refused permission, with organisers saying police cited the pandemic for their decision. The decision to delay the French Open tennis tournament -- which starts Sunday -- for a second successive year has saved "tens of millions of euros", the head of the French Tennis Federation tells AFP. Argentina pitches its "strict protocol" to host all of the Copa America 2021 matches to South America's football federation as the country suffers its worst moment of the pandemic. The pandemic has killed at least 3,500,321 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 591,957 deaths, followed by Brazil with 454,429, India with 315,235, Mexico with 222,232 and Britain with 127,748. The figures are based on reports by the 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/dl
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