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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: G7 leaders on the final day of their meeting in southwestern England vow to deliver one billion doses of Covid vaccines to poorer nations between now and the end of 2022. But the pledge falls far short of the 11 billion doses that campaigners say are needed to end a pandemic that has claimed nearly four million lives and wrecked economies around the globe. The G7 also urges China to cooperate with the World Health Organization on a "transparent" second-phase probe into how the global coronavirus pandemic began. Peru, hard hit by the pandemic, passes two million cases with 2,001,059 people now having contracted the virus and 188,443 deaths, according to the health ministry. Lebanon administers more than 40,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in a single weekend via nearly 50 centres giving jabs on a walk-in basis to anyone over the age of 55 who has not yet received a single dose. A top official in the European Medicines Agency says in an interview it might be worth abandoning AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine for all age groups where alternatives are available. Marco Cavaleri, the EMA's head of vaccine strategy, also tells Italy's La Stampa newspaper that the Johnson & Johnson jab should be preferentially used for the over 60s. Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa pledges no return to Covid restrictions despite a growing number of infections over the past month, especially in the capital Lisbon. Paris police detain three people after officers used tear gas to disperse hundreds of youths gathered for a street party in defiance of Covid social distancing limits and an 11:00 pm (2100 GMT) curfew. The so-called Project X gathering on Saturday, a reference to an American film from 2012, on the vast lawns in front of the Invalides war museum was the third party at the site since Thursday. The pandemic has claimed 3,797,342 lives worldwide since the virus first emerged in December 2019, according to an AFP compilation of official data at 1000 GMT on Sunday. The US is the worst-affected country with 599,672 deaths, followed by Brazil with 486,272, India 370,384, Mexico 230,095 and Peru with 188,443. burs-paj-ot/mw/har/yad
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