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A large US trial of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine shows it is safe and effective. The EU plans to impose sanctions on 11 individuals linked to the coup in Myanmar. The Turkish lira falls to near record low after President Erdogan fires the central bank governor. Analysis: Vaccine Update: Varied Rollout across the United States; Country in Charts: United States.

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A rundown of important global developments in markets, in business, and region-by-region, as well as statistical risk assessments by country and by US state.

Vaccine Update: Varied Rollout across the United States

Vaccine rollout across the United States is proceeding quickly; nearly 25 percent of Americans have now received at least one dose, putting the US in 6th place globally for doses administered per population (the leaders are, in descending order, Israel, the UK, the UAE, Chile and Bahrain). 

Country in Charts: United States

More than 124.5 million vaccine doses have been administered across the nation. About 24.5 percent of the total US population have received 1 or more doses. Overall, COVID-19 cases have decreased for the past 9 weeks. The current 7-day moving average of new cases (53,200) decreased 78.7 percent compared with the highest peak on January 11, 2021, (249,389).

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