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A batch of two million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine arrive in Sao Paulo on a flight from India. IMAGES
Rwandan President Paul Kagame, African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat, WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin, and Rwandan and African officials inaugurate the start of construction of BioNTech's messenger RNA vaccine production facility in Kigali, Rwanda. IMAGES
The premier of Ontario announces that he will lift vaccine passport requirements in the Canadian province, the epicenter of protests against Covid-19 health measures for more than two weeks now. SOUNDBITE
Canadian truckers stage a protest outside the parliament against Covid vaccine mandates, in Canada's capital Ottawa. The trucker-led protests have shut down central Ottawa for 14 days, trying to force the government to lift Covid-19 health regulations. The so-called Freedom Convoy began last month in western Canada -- launched in anger at requirements that truckers either be vaccinated, or test and isolate, when crossing the US-Canada border. IMAGES
Thousands of demonstrators from across the US march in Washington, DC, to decry Covid-19 mandates. Mostly maskless, the protesters walk from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in a city that has adopted mask and vaccine mandates. IMAGES