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* Health authorities are reallocating around 75% of Democratic Republic of Congo's 1.7 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses to other African countries to make sure they're used before they expire. MEDICAL DEVELOPMENTS * The World Health Organization said it was still in discussions about the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine and had not yet set a date to evaluate the shot's clinical data for possible emergency use listing. * Gilead Sciences Inc said on Monday it will give India at least 450,000 vials of its antiviral drug remdesivir and help boost production.

Vital medical supplies began to reach India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, and a surge in infections pushed the death toll towards 200,000. DEATHS AND INFECTIONS

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* Some Russians who have taken COVID-19 antibody tests and found their antibodies have fallen are having third and fourth shots of the Sputnik V vaccine, but researchers in the country suggest they are unnecessary. * The number of new cases in Sweden has decreased in the past week, but infections are still at a high level and it is too early to say whether the trend will continue, the Health Agency said.

* Finland should end its COVID-19 state of emergency as infection rates decline, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said, adding that the issue would go before parliament. * Denmark aims to start local production of coronavirus vaccines in 2022, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said, after previously expressing concern over the European Union's handling of vaccine procurement.

ASIA-PACIFIC * China said it had offered help to South Asian countries in accessing vaccines but India did not attend a regional video-conference on the matter, although it is currently suffering the world's worst wave of the pandemic.

* Bangladesh approved the Russian Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use. * Japan will open a mass vaccination centre in central Tokyo next month, part of the country's bid to speed up its inoculation campaign as the Olympic Games looms.

* Hong Kong will reopen bars and nightclubs from April 29 for people who have been vaccinated and use a government mobile phone application. * Thailand reported 15 new coronavirus deaths, setting its daily record for the third time in four days.

AMERICAS * Some U.S. lawmakers and wealthy technology executives have joined forces to boost aid to India as it grapples with a severe spike in infections.

* Canada will send the armed forces and Red Cross to Ontario to help the country's most populous province as it struggles to cope with a surge in hospitalizations from COVID-19. * The United States will start to share up to 60 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine with other countries as soon as the next few weeks.

* The Brazilian health regulator Anvisa on Monday rejected importing the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine, requested by state governors battling a deadly second wave of the virus. MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA

* Around 250 tour guides from Kenyan national parks lined up in downtown Nairobi to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, as part of a government effort to revive the tourism sector. * Health authorities are reallocating around 75% of Democratic Republic of Congo's 1.7 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses to other African countries to make sure they're used before they expire.

MEDICAL DEVELOPMENTS * The World Health Organization said it was still in discussions about the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine and had not yet set a date to evaluate the shot's clinical data for possible emergency use listing.

* Gilead Sciences Inc said on Monday it will give India at least 450,000 vials of its antiviral drug remdesivir and help boost production. ECONOMIC IMPACT

* Shares eased from record peaks on Tuesday as optimism about a global economic recovery was dented by caution before a policy decision by the Federal Reserve and earnings updates from a number of blue-chip companies. * German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz called the European Union's 750 billion euro ($905.85 billion) recovery fund, intended to kick-start the economy hit hard by COVID-19, a groundbreaking step for the 27-nation bloc.

(Compiled by Anita Kobylinska and Federico Maccioni; Edited by Ed Osmond and Timothy Heritage)

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