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"We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic," says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, urging the world to seize the opportunity to end the pandemic. SOUNDBITE
Production has been halted in the world's biggest chocolate plant, run by Swiss giant Barry Callebaut in the Belgian town of Wieze, after salmonella contaminations were found. IMAGES
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the Covid-19 pandemic will be over when "the world chooses to end it", adding "we have all the tools we need, but the world has not used those tools well". SOUNDBITE
Seville, Oct 8 (EFE).- Fernando Simón, the head of Spain’s coordination centre for health emergencies and alerts, and the Huelva writer Juan Cobos Wilkins, received on Friday the Emilio Castelar Awards.The award recognized committed people, companies and organizations in the defense of freedoms, the progress of peoples and the construction of a better society. (Camera: JUAN CHICANO). SHOT LIST: FERNANDO SIMON RECEIVES EMILIO CASTELAR AWARD, IN SEVILLE, SPAIN.
The world should be prepared for the coronavirus to continue to circulate long-term despite the roll-out of vaccines, the head of the EU's health agency ECDC Andrea Ammon tells AFP in an interview conducted via video call. "It seems more likely that it would stay. It seems very well adapted to humans. So we should be prepared that it will remain with us," she said in an interview. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).