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Prague, March 18 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Martin Divisek) The Czech Republic, a country of 10.7 million inhabitants, is currently the EU country with the highest infection rate with 1,572 per 100,000 inhabitants. In the last 24 hours, almost 12,000 new cases were detected, 18% less than a week ago, while active infections exceeded 87,700, of which 8,910 were hospitalized, a figure that has remained stable so far this month. The current number of those vaccinated is 1.2 million, 11% of the population over 16. FOOTAGE OF COVID-19 VACCINATION IN PRAGUE.
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Joe and Jill Biden will get the COVID vaccine on Monday. This news comes from the incoming White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Psaki also revealed that VP-elect Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff, will receive their vaccinations the week after the Bidens. The Pfizer vaccine requires two doses given to patients several weeks apart. Business Insider said the Pfizer has been found to be 94.5% effective. On December 18, VP Mike Pence, second lady Karen Pence, and Surgeon General Jerome Adams received the vaccine on-camera.
People who fled blazes observe the wildfire still burning in the distance, as night falls on the island Rhodes which remains at the highest level of fire alert, alongside Crete. Like every summer, Greece is plagued by forest fires, often deadly, ravaging tens of thousands of hectares of forest and vegetation. IMAGES
At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, the head of the UN's refugee agency Filippo Grandi says, "Today we pass the mark of half a million refugees from Sudan, following the beginning of the conflict." He also says that the number of people now internally displaced in the conflict torn nation is now at two million. SOUNDBITE
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus estimates the number of deaths caused by Covid-19 to be "at least 20 million", well above the official number reported to WHO of "almost seven million deaths". SOUNDBITE
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