Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world Sunday - CBC.ca

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The U.S. government's top infectious disease expert says the country is sticking with its recommendation for Americans to get COVID-19 booster shots eight months after receiving the vaccine but will be open to changes based on evolving data.

Dr. Anthony Fauci says there's "no doubt" in his mind that people will need to get an extra shot after they have received the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine, given the highly contagious delta variant.

He indicated the administration remained focused on doing that in an "expeditious" and "feasible" way after the eight-month mark, with doses beginning the week of Sept. 20, pending approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

President Joe Biden had suggested on Friday that his administration was considering whether to give booster shots as early as five months after vaccination, citing advice he received from the Israeli prime minister.

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But on Sunday, Fauci said regarding the eight-month U.S. guidance, "We're not changing it, but we are very open to new data as it comes in. We're going to be very flexible about it."

Fauci spoke on ABC's This Week, CNN's State of the Union and NBC's Meet the Press.

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What's happening across Canada

What's happening around the world

As of Sunday, more than 216.2 million cases of COVID-19 had been reported worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University's COVID-19 case tracker. The reported global death toll stood at more than 4.4 million.

In Europe, clashes erupted in Athens Sunday evening between the police and some participants in a protest rally against COVID-19 vaccinations.

In Asia, Japan is looking into the possibility of mixing shots of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine with those developed by other drugmakers in a bid to speed up its vaccine rollout, the minister in charge of vaccinations said on Sunday.

In Africa, the content will soon have access to 70 million vaccine doses from Germany, the country's Chancellor Angela Merkel said.

In the Americas, Cuba, which to date had deployed exclusively its homegrown vaccines, will start also using the Sinopharm vaccine from China in its bid to battle one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world. 

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