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Senegal receives its first doses of Covid-19 vaccines under the global scheme Covax at the Dakar Blaise Diagne International Airport. IMAGES
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera gets his Covid-19 vaccine in Santiago. The ministry of health reported on February 9 that it had vaccinated more than one million people against the coronavirus, six days after launching a mass-vaccination campaign for the elderly. IMAGES
New Zealand's former Covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins emerges as the sole nominee to replace Jacinda Ardern as the country's new prime minister. Speaking to reporters outside parliament in the capital Wellington, Hipkins said he will strive to "reach a consensus about who was best to lead Labour and therefore New Zealand forward." SOUNDBITE
Thousands of demonstrators from across the US march in Washington, DC, to decry Covid-19 mandates. Mostly maskless, the protesters walk from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in a city that has adopted mask and vaccine mandates. IMAGES
A nurse was arrested in Palermo, Sicily, for pretending to administer a Covid-19 vaccine to consenting patients, in particular to two spouses. In the video surveillance images, the nurse empties the content of a syringe into a gauze before giving the injection. IMAGES
Hundreds of opponents of the Covid-19 vaccine pass gather near the Eiffel Tour in Paris to protest against the controversial bill set to be greenlit by parliament and implemented by the end of January. IMAGES