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The Latest: Taiwan gets its first shipment of Pfizer vaccine

A health worker waits on a public bus to give residents over age 18 doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine in El Alto, Bolivia, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. Municipal authorities of El Alto deployed public buses to vaccinate residents against the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) Children attend the Jaime Paez soccer academy as the new academic school year begins amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. With many children attending classes virtually, some parents are enrolling their children in soccer academies as an extracurricular activity. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa) People queue up to get vaccinated against the coronavirus at a municipal health center in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Bikas Das) Health workers gather outside Laiko Hospital after a protest in Athens, Greece, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. Staff at public hospitals have held protests around Greece on the deadline to comply with a vaccination mandate for health care workers or face suspension without pay. The government says the measure is needed to safeguard hospitals amid a third major surge in COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) A woman applies vermillion paste on the forehead of a child, part of a Hindu ritual, during morning assembly on the first day of partial reopening of schools in Prayagraj, India, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. More students in India will be able to step inside a classroom for the first time in nearly 18 months Wednesday, as authorities have given the green light to partially reopen more schools despite apprehension from some parents and signs that infections are picking up again. Schools and colleges in at least six more states will reopen in a gradual manner with health measures in place throughout September. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Residents walk on the streets of Beijing, China, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) First graders take part in a ceremony marking the start of classes at a school as part of the traditional opening of the school year known as "Day of Knowledge" amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky) A passenger holds up his phone at a check point at Milan's Stazione Centrale train station, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. The Italian government vowed to crack down on demonstrators threatening to block train tracks throughout the country on Wednesday as a rule requiring COVID-19 tests or vaccines takes effect for long-distance domestic public transport. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP) Palestinian high school students wear face masks at a school in Gaza City, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. Palestinian health authorities are launching a vaccination drive for students aged 16-18 in the Gaza Strip as the territory contends with a third wave of coronavirus infections. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) Shopping mall workers undergo a COVID-19 swab test during the opening at the Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. Thailand to ease business lockdown measures in the capital and provinces where restrictions have been implemented since mid-July. Malls, hair salons, foot massage parlors, and parks will be allowed to re-open, as well as restaurants for dine-in services but maintained at 50% capacity. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) Elementary school students wear face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus and walk to school in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. Schools across Taiwan reopened for the academic year Wednesday, after they shut down in the face of the island's largest COVID-19 outbreak in May. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) Yvonne Willmann, a railway employee, draws up a syringe with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in a special train of the public transport S-Bahn, in which vaccination against COVID-19 are offered, in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 30, 2021. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)