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A health worker takes a break, as South Africa's rail company Transnet turned a train into a Covid-19 vaccination centre on rails, August 27, 2021. The European Union has agreed to send millions of coronavirus vaccine doses made in South Africa back to the continent, an African Union envoy said.
"All the vaccines produced at Aspen will stay in Africa and be distributed to Africa," the African Union's special Covid envoy said, adding that Aspen's arrangement to export the doses to Europe had been "suspended.” The variant was responsible for Colombia's deadly third infection wave between April and June, health official Marcela Mercado told a local radio station.
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