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Added on the 23/12/2021 - Copyright : tv shinjuku
"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
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
At a Covid-19 press briefing, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says that the WHO needs 23.4 dollars for the ACT-Accelerator partnership of leading global health agencies to meet its global targets and "deliver the tools that are needed to countries over the next 12 months". SOUNDBITE
Disneyland opens its gates to visitors in California after a 13-month closure. People began lining up before it's offical opening time. IMAGES
New Yorkers line up at a coronavirus testing site at Elmhurst Hospital in the Queens neighborhood of Elmhurst where Covid-19 wreaked havoc in 2020. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the first known Covid-19 case in the state exactly a year ago. IMAGES
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