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The head of the World Health Organization declares the monkeypox outbreak to be a global health emergency -- the highest alarm it can sound. SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organisation says its emergency committee will meet on Thursday April 30th to assess the coronavirus pandemic, three months after the UN body declared it an international emergency. SOUNDBITE
France's Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announces that the "anti-terrorist perimetre" set up around the banks of the Seine in Paris for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games will be "effective from tomorrow (July 18, Eds.) morning until 26 July." SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization declares that mpox no longer constitutes a global health emergency, almost exactly a year after the disease formerly known as monkeypox started spreading across the world. Following falling cases numbers, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells an online press conference he is "pleased to declare" that he had accepted the advice of the UN agency's emergency committee on mpox to lift its highest level of alarm. SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announces that he has decided to convene an emergency committee of international experts to assess whether the "clearly unusual and concerning" outbreak of monkeypox "represents a public health emergency of international concern". SOUNDBITE
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.