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South Korea ramps up coronavirus checking efforts at its 150 temporary testing stations erected nationwide this week amid a surge in cases. The country reported over 1,000 cases on Wednesday, having earlier broken its daily case record with 1,030 cases on Sunday. IMAGES
US Vice President Mike Pence tells reporters at a White House briefing that travel restrictions on Iran - already under a travel ban - will be expanded to help contain the coronavirus. Pence also urges US citizens to avoid traveling "to specific regions in Italy and South Korea." SOUNDBITE
More than 6,000 tourists are under lockdown aboard a cruise ship at an Italian port after two Chinese passengers were isolated over fears they could be carrying the coronavirus. IMAGES
A first delivery of mpox vaccines is expected to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the coming days, the World Health Organization's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says during a UN press briefing in Geneva. The WHO declared an international emergency over mpox on August 14, concerned by the surge in cases of a new strain, the Clade 1b, in the DR Congo and its spread to nearby countries. SOUNDBITE
"I don't necessarily see any broader regional security impacts at this point in time," US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says following the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in northwestern Iran. SOUNDBITE
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