The Latest: Asia-Pacific area seeks post-pandemic progress

Registered Nurse Manjot Kaur Munday, pauses for a moment outside the room of COVID-19 patient Joseph Trudeau, 49, of Surrey, British Columbia, at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Surrey Memorial Hospital in Surrey, British Columbia, Friday, June 4, 2021. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)

A health worker administers the AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 to a Kashmiri woman after persuading her to take the shot in Tral village south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, June 5, 2021. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

A nurse approaches people to give them a shot of Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines inside the gym of the American Institute school, as people over age 40 are eligible to get vaccinated in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, June 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

People wearing face masks ride a tram in Lisbon, Friday, June 4, 2021. Britain said Thursday that it is removing Portugal from its list of COVID-safe travel destinations, meaning thousands of U.K. residents currently on vacation there face the prospect of 10 days' quarantine on return. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Police officers stand in the evening in the Schanzenviertel on the street "Schulterblatt" and control the coronavirus rules, in Hamburg, Germany, Friday, June 4, 2021. In the Schanzenviertel, alcohol may no longer be served outside on the weekend. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)

Laura Aguero, the niece of 38-year-old lawyer Arturo Benitez who spent 25 days in the ICU for COVID-19 at Clinicas Hospital, embraces a nurse after learning he died, in San Lorenzo, Paraguay, Friday, June 4, 2021. Aguero said the family spent almost $15,000 dollars on medication for him that was not provided by the hospital. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

A health worker prepares to administer a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 to a farmer in a paddy field in Tral village south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, June 5, 2021. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

Afghan health workers carry the body of a woman who died from COVID-19 at the Afghan-Japan Communicable Disease Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 30, 2021. Afghanistan is battling a brutal third wave of COVID infections, while health officials plead for vaccines, expressing deep frustration at the inequities of the global vaccine distribution. Positive COVID cases jump from eight percent to 60 per cent in some parts of the country. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

FILE - In this Friday, April 16, 2021, file photo, an actress playing a Marilyn Monroe character wears a face mask as she poses for pictures at Universal Studios Hollywood theme park in Los Angeles. The park officially reopens to the public at 25% capacity with COVID-19 protocols in place. California Gov. Gavin Newsom appeared disinclined Friday, June 4, 2021, to insert himself into the regulatory process for workplaces after a state safety board upset business groups by approving new rules that require all workers to wear masks unless everyone around them is vaccinated against the coronavirus, The revised rules, approved after a long and sometimes contentious meeting Thursday, eliminate social distancing requirements but run counter to Newsom's plan to "fully" reopen California in less than two weeks and allow vaccinated people to skip face coverings in nearly all situations. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

People spend the day at the beach of the Baltic Sea in Scharbeutz, northern Germany, on a sunny Saturday, June 5, 2021. It was the first run to the beaches after some Corona restrictions in that region ended. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)