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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: The United States drug regulator authorises the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children aged 12 to 15 as the country aims to speed up its pandemic recovery. The head of the European Medicines Agency says the same jab could be approved in the EU for 12- to 15-year-olds soon, perhaps as early as this month. Brussels is suing the British-Swedish pharma giant to force it to deliver the 90 million vaccine doses it promised the bloc before July. US biotech firm Novavax says it has delayed plans to seek authorisation for its vaccine until later in the year, sending shares tumbling 12 percent. Norway will spend billions of dollars more than planned from its oil revenues to mitigate the impact of the pandemic as elections loom in September. Japanese tennis superstar Naomi Osaka admits she is "not really sure" the Tokyo Olympics should go ahead as doubts grow about the pandemic-hit Games just weeks before the opening ceremony. Taiwan bans large gatherings after a cluster of local infections prompts authorities to raise the coronavirus alert level in the country which has been praised for the way it has handled the pandemic. Australia sets a new target of vaccinating all willing adults by the end of 2021, hoping to increase the glacial speed of a roll-out that threatens the country's pandemic success story. The pandemic has killed at least 3,306,037 people worldwide since the virus first emerged in late 2019, according to an AFP compilation of official data. The US is the worst-affected country with 582,153 deaths, followed by Brazil with 423,229, India 249,922, Mexico 219,089 and Britain 127,609. burs-eab/fg/yad
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