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Added on the 20/01/2021 16:25:30 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Members of Japan's elderly community receive their Covid-19 shots as a new mass vaccination center opens in Tokyo in an effort to accelerate the country's vaccination rollout amid a fourth wave of infections. The centers, run by the Self-Defense Forces, will operate for three months from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time, including weekends and national holidays. They will use the Moderna vaccine developed by the United States, which was approved by the government on Friday. Japan hopes the mass venues, aiming to inoculate up to 10,000 people a day in Tokyo. IMAGES
400 people over 65 years old are vaccinated against Covid-19 with the CoronaVac and AstraZeneca vaccines in Rio a day after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro overhauled his government, changing six cabinet members including the foreign, defense and justice ministers, as the far-right leader faced mounting pressure over a deadly virus surge. IMAGES
Brazilian Indigenous people from different tribes rally in the capital, Brasilia, as Brazil's Supreme Court weighs the legality of the so-called "time-frame argument," which holds that native peoples should not have the right to lands where they were not present in 1988. IMAGES
People queue outside a Covid-19 test center as Germany hits a record 100,000 daily Covid-19 cases. Germany's daily toll of new Covid-19 cases has topped 100,000 for the first time, according to data from the country's public health agency. IMAGES
Images show the Ramada Hotel in Schiphol, Netherlands where Europe's highest number of people so far with the Omicron strain of Covid-19 are being kept in isolation. IMAGES