May 01, 2021 (Translations: Chinese Tradiitional, Chinese Simplified, French, Punjabi, Farsi, Tagalog, Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Vietnamese, Japanese, Hindi, please visit: Vaccines in high-transmission neighbourhoods) Prioritizing neighbourhoods based on COVID-19 cases, outbreaks and hospitalizations will protect more people. People born in 1981 or earlier …
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