Only 1 percent of 662.5M people living in 26 low-income countries are fully vaccinated, while close to 60 percent in high-income countries have received the shots.
Some 16,000 Haitians are in northern Colombia waiting to go to the treacherous Darien Gap in Panama, but some are weighing stopping after recent U.S. deportations.
The decision was made "in order to safeguard people's properties and maintain economic, financial and social order," the People's Bank of China has said.
Taiwan said 24 Chinese military aircraft had menaced the self-ruling island after it followed Beijing in applying for membership in the trade agreement.
Mexico is the second-most Catholic country in the world and the Supreme Court there has decriminalized abortion. NBC News' Priscilla Thompson explains what this means for people in the country.
New cases have been gradually dropping nationwide, although experts caution that new infections are still at a high rate and further decline will be slow.