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The European Medicines Agency approves the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus jab for 12- to 15-year-olds, the first vaccine to get the green light for children in the EU. SOUNDBITE
"I think we're coming to that point where we can look at COVID-19 in the same way we look at seasonal influenza" says Dr Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme. Speaking at a WHO press conference, Ryan projects that COVID will, this year, become "a threat to health, a virus that will continue to kill, but a virus that is not disrupting our society or disrupting our hospital systems." SOUNDBITE
Dr. Woldemariam, the WHO (World Health Organisation) Representative to Uganda, says of the 44 confirmed Ebola cases currently in the country, 10 are health workers. SOUNDBITE
People crowd the Champs-Elysees in Paris on another Covid-stricken New Year's Eve, as celebratory fireworks were cancelled due to a surge in Covid cases. IMAGES
Moscow celebrates 2022 with a fireworks display over an empty Red Square to which access was restricted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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