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    United States · October 15, 2021 · 9:27 PM UTC

    Outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday unanimously recommended the agency authorize a second shot of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine for all recipients of the one-dose inoculation.

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    Seven Hong Kong activists jailed over unauthorised protest in 2020

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