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A sign directs members of the public to a drive-thru Covid-19 vaccination station set up at Exhibition Park in Canberra, Australia, on Friday, August 13, 2021.Egypt received a new batch of about 1.7 million AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses through the global COVAX initiative, the health ministry said late on Friday.
Egypt has also received shipments of the Sputnik, Sinopharm, Sinovac and Johnson & Johnson shots. It also recently began locally producing Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccines. State police will fine people for breaching stay-at-home orders or for lying to contract-tracing officials, said state Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
Authorities had been talking about easing some restrictions if enough people are vaccinated and case numbers fall. Hundreds more defence personnel will be deployed next week to Sydney to help enforce the lockdown, with authorities particularly concerned about the spread of the virus to several regional towns.
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