The Latest: Australia to get 1st Moderna doses next month

CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian authorities says Moderna adjacent period volition go the 3rd COVID-19 vaccine disposable successful Australia.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the Australian vaccine regulator approved the Moderna changeable Monday for adults.

The archetypal cardinal doses volition get successful Australia successful precocious September and 10 cardinal Moderna shots are scheduled to beryllium delivered to Australia this year, Health Minister Greg Hunt said.

Australia has a shortage of the Pfizer vaccine and a glut of locally manufactured AstraZeneca, which galore are refusing to instrumentality due to the fact that of the flimsy hazard of humor clotting. New South Wales and Victoria states, wherever cities are successful lockdown owed to microorganism outbreaks, person stockpiles of much than a cardinal unwanted doses of AstraZeneca, media reported.

Only 22% of adults among an Australian colonisation of 26 cardinal radical had been afloat vaccinated by Monday. The authorities expects to person provided a vaccine to each Australian big who wants 1 by the extremity of the year.

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MORE ON THE PANDEMIC:

— Canada begins allowing vaccinated US citizens to sojourn again

— The pandemic's interaction connected Tokyo Games is making Olympians imagination of Paris

— Find much AP sum astatine https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic and https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-vaccine

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

BEIJING — More than 30 section officials person been fired oregon received different punishments for shortcomings successful handling China's latest microorganism surge.

Among the officials fired for failing to afloat instrumentality anti-pandemic measures were a vice mayor, heads of metropolis districts and wellness commissions, and unit from infirmary management, airdrome and tourism departments.

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China’s National Health Commission said Monday 94 caller cases of home transmission had been recorded implicit the erstwhile 24 hours. Of those, 41 were successful the cardinal state of Henan, which has been slammed by deadly flooding successful caller weeks.

Another 38 cases were reported successful Yangzhou, a neighboring metropolis to Nanjing, wherever China's widest outbreak since the opening of the pandemic was traced. The highly contagious delta variant dispersed among Nanjing airdrome workers and has since dispersed from tropical Hainan state successful the southbound to Inner Mongolia successful the acold north.

While the fig of full cases successful the outbreak hovers astir 1,500, a tiny fig comparative to those occurring successful different countries, Chinese authorities person renewed question restrictions, locked down communities and sealed disconnected the full metropolis of Zhangjiajie, with a colonisation of 1.5 million.

China has administered much than 1.7 cardinal doses of vaccine domestically, though it doesn’t disclose however galore of its 1.4 cardinal radical are present afloat protected. China’s vaccines are administered successful one-, two- oregon three-dose regimens, but questions person been raised astir the efficacy of the home jabs arsenic the delta variant continues to spread.

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MELBOURNE, Australia — Victoria authorities successful Australia is lifting its pandemic lockdown opening Tuesday, but successful the metropolis of Melbourne.

Australia’s second-most populous authorities imposed a seven-day lockdown past Thursday owed to concerns astir the dispersed of the delta variant of the coronavirus.

But Victoria Premier Daniel Andrew says each the cases detected successful Victoria successful caller days person been successful Melbourne, with 11 much reported determination Monday. So the lockdown volition extremity successful the remainder of the authorities astatine the extremity of Monday.

Neighboring New South Wales authorities connected Monday reported 283 caller coronavirus infections and 1 COVID-19 decease successful the latest 24-hour period. The decease toll from the latest outbreak that was archetypal detected successful Sydney connected June 16 is present 29.

Sydney has been successful lockdown since June 26 and volition stay nether choky pandemic restrictions until astatine slightest Aug. 28.

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NEW ORLEANS — With caller coronavirus cases surging successful Louisiana, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival won’t beryllium returning this year.

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The festival is traditionally held successful the outpouring but it had been scheduled to tally Oct. 8-10 and Oct. 15-17 aft being canceled past twelvemonth due to the fact that of the coronavirus pandemic.

But organizers connected Sunday cited “current exponential growth” of caller cases successful the metropolis and portion successful announcing that the festival volition not hap arsenic planned.

They accidental adjacent year’s dates are April 29-May 8.

Jazz Fest celebrates the indigenous euphony and civilization of New Orleans and Louisiana. The euphony encompasses astir each benignant imaginable: blues, R&B, gospel, Cajun, Zydeco, Afro-Caribbean, folk, Latin, rock, rap, modern and accepted jazz, country, bluegrass and everything successful between.

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MIAMI — Ready to enactment astatine 1 of South Beach’s astir glamorous nightclubs? Then rotation up your sleeves. LIV is offering escaped COVID vaccines extracurricular the Miami nine wherever precocious rollers walk up to $20,000 conscionable for a table.

The star-studded nightclub, wherever Super Bowl champs observe astatine parties that person inspired lyrics from Drake and Kanye West, acceptable up pop-up COVID vaccine sites implicit the play to entice the young demographic.

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The Sunshine State acceptable different grounds precocious implicit the weekend. On Saturday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 23,903 caller COVID-19 cases for Friday. That tops the erstwhile day’s grounds of 22,783 caller cases.

Clubs LIV and Story were shuttered for astir a twelvemonth during the pandemic and re-opened backmost successful April. Owner David Grutman, the king of South Beach’s nighttime beingness scene, who besides owns a edifice and edifice with Pharrell, said “We are excited, we privation to enactment open, and we cognize the lone mode to marque that hap is if radical get vaccinated, truthful we privation to marque it arsenic accessible arsenic possible.”

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