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Security personnel stand guard near the Olympic rings monument during a rally by anti-Olympics protesters outside the Japanese Olympic Committee headquarters, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan May 18, 2021. REUTERS/Issei Kato
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Most Japanese medical workers still not fully vaccinated as Olympics loom

Cabinet figures released this week showed that three months into Japan's Covid-19 vaccination push, less than 40% of all medical workers in the country were fully inoculated

Villagers attend a protest against the military coup, in Launglon township, Myanmar April 4, 2021 in this picture obtained from social media. Dawei Watch/via REUTERS
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Myanmar security forces fire on protesting medical workers, some hurt

Medical workers hold a strike near Queen Elizabeth Hospital as they demand Hong Kong close its border with China to reduce the coronavirus spreading, in Hong Kong, China/Reuters
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Hong Kong medical workers strike to urge closure of China border to block virus