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Around 71 per cent of people have had at least one dose of a COVID vaccine, and 62 per cent have been fully vaccinated. Of these, 57 per cent have received the Sinopharm vaccine, and 43 per cent AstraZeneca. Despite this, there has been a recent surge in cases, with 37 per cent of new active cases and 20 per cent of hospital cases being fully vaccinated.

The headline and tone of this article from CNBC are alarming: "Chile has one of the world's best vaccination rates. COVID is surging there anyway." One must read 13 paragraphs into the story to begin to solve what looks like a mystery.Chile's vaccination campaign against the coronavirus has been one of the world's quickest and most extensive, but a recent surge in infections has sparked concern beyond its borders.Almost 40% of the South American country's total population have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to statistics compiled by Our World in Data, reflecting one of...

BEIJING - China is ready to begin human trials on an experimental SARS (news - web sites) vaccine, a government official said Monday, but the World Health Organization (news - web sites) cautioned that a safe and effective vaccine was likely still a long way off. "This vaccine will protect the body," Yin Hongzhang, head of China's State Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites)'s biological product section, told The Associated Press. "We cannot tell yet whether it will be successful in humans, but we can say it is effective in animals, especially monkeys." The agency is looking for...