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Australian inflation falls to 2-year low

STORY: Australian inflation falls to 2-year low SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 2, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 2, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:10 LOCATION: Canberra CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Australians shopping at supermarkets STORYLINE: Australia's rate of inflation fell to its lowest level in over two years at the end of 2023, official figures have revealed. According to data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) this week, the consumer price index (CPI) - Australia's headline measure of inflation - rose by 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2023 spanning from the start of October to the end of December - half the 1.2 percent rise in the previous three-month period. It marks the lowest quarterly CPI rise since the first quarter of 2021. In the 12 months to the end of December, the CPI rose by 4.1 percent, the ABS said, down from a peak annual rise of 7.8 percent in the year to December 2022. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported on Thursday that economists had forec

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Xinhua Headlines: Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region's coordinated development generates new growth driver

(230226) -- BEIJING, Feb. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo shows Beijing Children's Hospital in Baoding City, north China's Hebei Province, Oct. 12, 2021. (Xinhua/Zhu Xudong)

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(SP)CHINA-XINJIANG-ALTAY-WINTER SPORTS-HOTSPOT-SKIERS (CN)

(230226) -- URUMQI, Feb. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Peng Chao writes about skiing safety guidelines at his cabin in the village of Hemu in Altay, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Jan. 12, 2023. With its high-quality snow conditions, Xinjiang in northwest China has built a number of high-standard ski resorts and become a new hotspot for winter sports. The snow season in Altay, which is located in the northernmost part of Xinjiang, can last up to seven months, making it a heaven for winter sports lovers. At the beginning of the snow season in 2021, Beijing-based skier Peng Chao rented a cabin in the village of Hemu in the Altay Mountain as a work station for his startup team. The team primarily conducts ski equipment testing and popularises knowledge about skiing. As a veteran skier, Peng has dual certifications in skiing and snowboarding, as well as coaching qualifications at various levels. Meanwhile, he continuously participates in skiing safety-related training both domestically and

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(SP)CHINA-XINJIANG-ALTAY-WINTER SPORTS-HOTSPOT-SKIERS (CN)

(230226) -- URUMQI, Feb. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Jan. 12, 2023 shows a ski resort and surrounding mountains in Altay, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. With its high-quality snow conditions, Xinjiang in northwest China has built a number of high-standard ski resorts and become a new hotspot for winter sports. The snow season in Altay, which is located in the northernmost part of Xinjiang, can last up to seven months, making it a heaven for winter sports lovers. At the beginning of the snow season in 2021, Beijing-based skier Peng Chao rented a cabin in the village of Hemu in the Altay Mountain as a work station for his startup team. The team primarily conducts ski equipment testing and popularises knowledge about skiing. As a veteran skier, Peng has dual certifications in skiing and snowboarding, as well as coaching qualifications at various levels. Meanwhile, he continuously participates in skiing safety-related training both domestically and abroad. During

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(SP)CHINA-XINJIANG-ALTAY-WINTER SPORTS-HOTSPOT-SKIERS (CN)

(230226) -- URUMQI, Feb. 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Jan. 12, 2023 shows a ski resort in Altay, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. With its high-quality snow conditions, Xinjiang in northwest China has built a number of high-standard ski resorts and become a new hotspot for winter sports. The snow season in Altay, which is located in the northernmost part of Xinjiang, can last up to seven months, making it a heaven for winter sports lovers. At the beginning of the snow season in 2021, Beijing-based skier Peng Chao rented a cabin in the village of Hemu in the Altay Mountain as a work station for his startup team. The team primarily conducts ski equipment testing and popularises knowledge about skiing. As a veteran skier, Peng has dual certifications in skiing and snowboarding, as well as coaching qualifications at various levels. Meanwhile, he continuously participates in skiing safety-related training both domestically and abroad. During his stay in Hemu, Peng and

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Canadian expat in Wuhan speaks highly of China's COVID fight

STORY: Canadian expat in Wuhan speaks highly of China's COVID fight DATELINE: Feb. 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:27 LOCATION: WUHAN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): JEFF LAING, Principal of Maple Leaf Foreign National School-Wuhan STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE (English): JEFF LAING, Principal of Maple Leaf Foreign National School-Wuhan "I've been in Wuhan for in total 12 years, but especially during the last 3.5 years, during the pandemic situation time, I've remained in China, in Wuhan the entire time. We were able to pretty much live our life normally. If we look at Wuhan, I think it was very beneficial to try to slow down the spread (of the virus). I think it was important that step was taken. So if we look back at the very beginning of 2020, and then through 2021, and early parts of 2022, I think there was an understanding that there was a necessity, like it was important to continue with the strict measures to make sure that society was safe, that the people that were living throughout the d

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1st batch of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Japan

NARITA, Japan, Feb. 12 Kyodo - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Feb. 12, 2021, shows cargo being unloaded at Narita airport near Tokyo from an airplane that transported from Brussels the first batch to arrive in Japan of the coronavirus vaccine developed by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc.

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1st batch of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Japan

NARITA, Japan, Feb. 12 Kyodo - Cargo is unloaded at Narita airport near Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2021, from an airplane that transported from Brussels the first batch to arrive in Japan of the coronavirus vaccine developed by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc.

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(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-GLACIERS(CN)

(220617) -- LHASA, June 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken with a mobile phone on Feb. 12, 2021 shows a glacier in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Shen Hongbing)

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Myanmar releases 1,619 prisoners in New Year's amnesty

STORY: Myanmar releases 1,619 prisoners in New Year's amnesty DATELINE: April 17, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:28 LOCATION: YANGON, Myanmar CATEGORY: LAW SHOTLIST: 1. various of families waiting in front of a prison STORYLINE: Myanmar's State Administration Council remitted sentences of a total of 1,619 prisoners on Sunday, the first day of Myanmar calendar New Year. According to the council's orders, 1,577 Myanmar national prisoners and 42 foreign prisoners are remitted sentences to mark the country's traditional New Year and on humanitarian ground, as well as in view of relations between the respective countries and Myanmar. The council also pardoned 814 Myanmar prisoners and seven foreign prisoners on Feb. 12 this year to mark the Diamond Jubilee Union Day. The country released 23,184 prisoners in the amnesty on New Year's Day in 2021. Myanmar typically releases thousands of prisoners in annual amnesty to mark its traditional New Year. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Yangon, Myan

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Xinhua Headlines: Washington urged to end costly tariff war on China amid surging inflation

(220219) -- WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, 2022 (Xinhua) -- United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai testifies before a Senate Finance Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., the United States, May 12, 2021. (Pete Marovich/Pool via Xinhua)

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CHINA-SHANXI-TIGER CULTURE (CN)

(220211) -- TAIYUAN, Feb. 11, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Kristina Radchenko (L), who came from Russia and now works in Changzhi City near Licheng, learns about hat with tiger head pattern in Licheng County, north China's Shanxi Province, Jan. 12, 2021. TO GO WITH "Across China: Exploring tiger culture in north China's small county" (Xinhua/Wang Xuetao)

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Xinhua Headlines: Seeing China through Beijing 2022 -- Greener, more open and cheerful

(220212) -- BEIJING, Feb. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Dec. 28, 2021 shows a view of Big Air Shougang, the venue for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Tao Xiyi)

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Xinhua Headlines: Seeing China through Beijing 2022 -- Greener, more open and cheerful

(220212) -- BEIJING, Feb. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A staff member skates at the National Speed Skating Oval after the stadium's first ice-making operation in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 19, 2021. (Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin)

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Xinhua Headlines: Seeing China through Beijing 2022 -- Greener, more open and cheerful

(220212) -- BEIJING, Feb. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Staff members of the State Grid Beijing Electric Power Company check devices of Zhangbei renewable energy flexible direct current grid in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 25, 2021. (Xinhua/Li Xin)

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CHINA-BEIJING-CHILDREN'S MUSICAL-WINTER OLYMPICS (CN)

(220212) -- BEIJING, Feb. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Actors perform in a children's musical featuring the mascots of Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Bing Dwen Dwen and Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games Shuey Rhon Rhon in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 12, 2021. The children's musical created and performed by Beijing Children's Art Theater, was staged in Beijing on Saturday. (Xinhua/Jin Liangkuai)

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CHINA-BEIJING-CHILDREN'S MUSICAL-WINTER OLYMPICS (CN)

(220212) -- BEIJING, Feb. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Actors perform in a children's musical featuring the mascots of Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Bing Dwen Dwen and Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games Shuey Rhon Rhon in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 12, 2021. The children's musical created and performed by Beijing Children's Art Theater, was staged in Beijing on Saturday. (Xinhua/Jin Liangkuai)

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CHINA-BEIJING-CHILDREN'S MUSICAL-WINTER OLYMPICS (CN)

(220212) -- BEIJING, Feb. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Actors perform in a children's musical featuring the mascots of Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Bing Dwen Dwen and Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games Shuey Rhon Rhon in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 12, 2021. The children's musical created and performed by Beijing Children's Art Theater, was staged in Beijing on Saturday. (Xinhua/Jin Liangkuai)

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CHINA-BEIJING-CHILDREN'S MUSICAL-WINTER OLYMPICS (CN)

(220212) -- BEIJING, Feb. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Actors perform in a children's musical featuring the mascots of Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Bing Dwen Dwen and Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games Shuey Rhon Rhon in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 12, 2021. The children's musical created and performed by Beijing Children's Art Theater, was staged in Beijing on Saturday. (Xinhua/Jin Liangkuai)

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CHINA-BEIJING-CHILDREN'S MUSICAL-WINTER OLYMPICS (CN)

(220212) -- BEIJING, Feb. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Actors perform in a children's musical featuring the mascots of Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Bing Dwen Dwen and Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games Shuey Rhon Rhon in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 12, 2021. The children's musical created and performed by Beijing Children's Art Theater, was staged in Beijing on Saturday. (Xinhua/Jin Liangkuai)

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CHINA-BEIJING-CHILDREN'S MUSICAL-WINTER OLYMPICS (CN)

(220212) -- BEIJING, Feb. 12, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Actors perform in a children's musical featuring the mascots of Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Bing Dwen Dwen and Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games Shuey Rhon Rhon in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 12, 2021. The children's musical created and performed by Beijing Children's Art Theater, was staged in Beijing on Saturday. (Xinhua/Jin Liangkuai)

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#CHINA-LUNAR NEW YEAR-YEAR OF TIGER (CN)

(220201) -- BEIJING, Feb. 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Dec. 30, 2021 shows tiger-themed dough modelling in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province. With the arrival of Chinese New Year on Tuesday, the country enters the Year of the Tiger.Tiger, one of the 12 animal signs of the Chinese zodiac, symbolizes strength, bravery and fearlessness. (Photo by Zhang Guorong/Xinhua)

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XINHUA-PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2021-CHINA NEWS

(220106) -- BEIJING, Jan. 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Combo photo shows medical staff Zhou Guohong giving a cheer-up gesture to colleagues at the temporary hospital converted from Wuhan Sports Center to combat the COVID-19 pandemic on Feb. 12, 2020 (L) and Zhou posing for a photo in front of cherry trees in Wuhan University during a free exclusive tour provided by the university for medical workers across China who had assisted Wuhan with the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, on March 13, 2021, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)

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2021 Spring Festival Travel Rush

A large number of tourists take advantage of the spring holiday to visit the old Chenghuang Temple Yuyuan Garden business district in Shanghai, China, Feb 12, 2021.

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2021 Spring Festival Travel Rush

A large number of tourists take advantage of the spring holiday to visit the old Chenghuang Temple Yuyuan Garden business district in Shanghai, China, Feb 12, 2021.

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2021 Spring Festival Travel Rush

A large number of tourists take advantage of the spring holiday to visit the old Chenghuang Temple Yuyuan Garden business district in Shanghai, China, Feb 12, 2021.

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2021 Spring Festival Travel Rush

A large number of tourists take advantage of the spring holiday to visit the old Chenghuang Temple Yuyuan Garden business district in Shanghai, China, Feb 12, 2021.

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Chinese New Year Lantern Show

Tourists visit the traditional Chinese New Year lantern show at the Old Town God Temple Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai, China, Feb. 12, 2021.

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Chinese New Year Lantern Show

Tourists visit the traditional Chinese New Year lantern show at the Old Town God Temple Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai, China, Feb. 12, 2021.

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Chinese New Year Lantern Show

Tourists visit the traditional Chinese New Year lantern show at the Old Town God Temple Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai, China, Feb. 12, 2021.

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Traditional Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival in Shanghai

A large number of tourists view the traditional Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival in Shanghai, China, Feb 12, 2021.

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Tourists Visit The Bund During Spring Festival in Shanghai

Tourists visit the Bund during Spring Festival in Shanghai, China, Feb. 12, 2021.

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Traditional Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival in Shanghai

A large number of tourists view the traditional Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival in Shanghai, China, Feb 12, 2021.

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Traditional Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival in Shanghai

A large number of tourists view the traditional Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival in Shanghai, China, Feb 12, 2021.

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Tourists Visit The Bund During Spring Festival in Shanghai

Tourists visit the Bund during Spring Festival in Shanghai, China, Feb. 12, 2021.

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Chinese Celebrate Lunar New Year

Tens of thousands of people visit a park and Confucian Temple shopping street on the first day of the Chinese lunar New Year in Huai 'an, east China's Jiangsu Province, Feb 12, 2021.

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Photo exhibition for Kim Jong Il

A photo exhibition is held in Pyongyang on Feb. 12, 2021, to celebrate the 79th anniversary on Feb. 16 of the birth of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

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Protest against military coup in Myanmar

People protest in Yangon, Myanmar, on Feb. 12, 2021, against the military that has detained Aung San Suu Kyi and other government leaders since it staged a coup on Feb. 1.

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Figure skating: Yuma Kagiyama

Japanese figure skater Yuma Kagiyama gives an interview in Yokohama near Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2021.

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Figure skating: Yuma Kagiyama

Japanese figure skater Yuma Kagiyama gives an interview in Yokohama near Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2021.

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Figure skating: Yuma Kagiyama

Japanese figure skater Yuma Kagiyama gives an interview in Yokohama near Tokyo on Feb. 12, 2021.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Photo (L) taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 22, 2011, shows the tsunami-devastated Onagawa town in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, about 10 days after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Photo (R) taken from the helicopter on Feb. 12, 2021, shows public houses built for the affected people (upper right) on elevated land and a new railway station (C) in the same area.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Photo (top) taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 12, 2011, shows tsunami-devastated houses in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, a day after the Great East Japan Earthquake. A large-scale agricultural farm (seen in the center of the bottom photo) built in the same area after the houses were demolished is pictured from the helicopter on Feb. 14, 2021.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Combined photo shows smoke (top) rising in an area in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Kesennuma, northeastern Japan, on March 12, 2011, a day after the earthquake-tsunami disaster, and the same area (bottom) on Feb. 12, 2021, after a bridge was built over Kesennuma Bay as part of reconstruction work.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Three photos taken from a Kyoto News helicopter show an area hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The first photo (top) was taken June 10, 2011, while the second photo (middle) taken Sept. 1, 2014, shows a huge conveyor belt used for land elevation work, followed by the third photo (bottom), taken Feb. 12, 2021, showing a memorial park that was built in the area as a reminder of the disaster for future generations.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Combined photo shows a tsunami-devastated area (top) in Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, pictured from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 13, 2011, and a memorial park created in the same area (bottom), pictured from the helicopter on Feb. 12, 2021, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Combined photo shows a tsunami-devastated area (top) in Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, pictured from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 23, 2011, and shops and public facilities built on an elevated land in the same area (bottom), pictured from the helicopter on Feb. 12, 2021, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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10 years after Great East Japan Earthquake

Combined photo shows a tsunami-hit area (top) in Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, pictured from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 12, 2011, and the same area (bottom) pictured from a drone on Feb. 19, 2021, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. A memorial park (seen in the lower right of the bottom picture) is set to open on March 11.

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Japan PM Suga on COVID-19 vaccinations

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga meets the press at his office in Tokyo on Feb. 24, 2021. Japan will begin coronavirus vaccinations for the elderly on April 12, Suga said.

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COVID-19 vaccination in Japan

Photo taken Feb. 12, 2021, shows an All Nippon Airways plane at Narita airport near Tokyo following its flight from Belgium to ship coronavirus vaccine. Japan began vaccinations against the virus on Feb. 17.