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The World Health Organization will continue pushing until it finds an answer to how the Covid-19 pandemic started, the agency chief says, following a report suggesting it had abandoned the search. SOUNDBITE
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he hopes the COVID-19 pandemic will last less time than the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people in two years. SOUNDBITE from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sets a general election date for July 4, ending months of speculation about when he would go to the country. IMAGES
The US Justice Department announces it is fining Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, a total of $4.3 billion over violations of anti-money laundering and sanctions laws. "This is one of the largest penalties we've ever obtained from a corporate defendant in a criminal matter," US Attorney General Merrick Garland tells reporters. 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
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.
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