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Added on the 03/07/2020 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Fireworks light up the sky above Tokyo's Olympic Stadium as the closing ceremony for the postponed 2020 Olympic Games ends. IMAGES
The United States commits to donating 80 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine abroad by the end of the month, White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients says during a news briefing. "We will continue to donate additional doses across the summer months as supply becomes available," Zients says. SOUNDBITE
Speaking from the EU summit in Porto, Portugal, French President Emmanuel Macron urges the United States to end its de facto ban on coronavirus vaccine exports. Macron says that stopping the export ban is "the key to producing vaccines quickly for all poor and middle-income countries". SOUNDBITE
Scene at Pfizer headquarters in New York City as the full results of a clinical trial for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a major milestone that came as a committee of the US Food and Drug Administration holds a virtual meeting to discuss its approval. IMAGES
"We are here to stay," Pete Buttigieg tells supporters in New Hampshire as results indicate he will come in a close second to fellow Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in the state's primary election. SOUNDBITE