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Added on the 23/11/2016 14:03:44 - Copyright : Euronews EN
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
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street for Parliament to take part in his weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons as he faces the consequences of a damning report into lockdown-breaking parties at Downing Street, published in full on Wednesday. IMAGES
Although masks are no longer mandatory on trains in England, not all commuters at London King's Cross station have abandoned them. This comes as England lifts coronavirus restrictions imposed to tackle the Omicron variant, with masks no longer required in enclosed places and vaccine passports shelved. IMAGES
Residents of Madrid continue to wear masks on the first day Spain drops its requirement for people to wear facemasks outside. This comes more than a year after the measure was made compulsory across the country. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden has ordered intelligence agencies to report to him in the next three months on whether the Covid-19 virus first emerged in China from an animal source or from a laboratory accident, White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says at the administration's daily press briefing. SOUNDBITE