Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in June 2021
This article documents the chronology of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in June 2021, which originated in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Some developments may become known or fully understood only in retrospect. Reporting on this pandemic began in December 2019. Reactions and measures in the United Nations 1 June The World Health Organization has approved China's Sinovac CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, allowing the vaccine to be used in the global COVAX programme. Reactions and measures in Africa Reactions and measures in the Americas 15 June Governor Baker of Massachusetts terminated the COVID-19 State of Emergency effective June 15. Reactions and measures in the Eastern Mediterranean 18 June The Israeli Government has announced plans to transfer at least one million doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to the Palestinian Authority. These vaccines are scheduled to expire soon. The Palestinian Authority later cancelled the agreement with Israel to transfer at least one million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to the West Bank. In justifying the cancellation, Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila stated that the vaccines' expiry dates were close and that the Palestinian Authority had rejected Israeli demands that none of the vaccines be transferred to the