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Added on the 17/04/2021 11:00:04 - Copyright : AFP EN
The EU is to donate another 200 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to low-income countries, more than doubling its present pledge, the bloc's chief Ursula von der Leyen announces. SOUNDBITE
Senegal receives its first doses of Covid-19 vaccines under the global scheme Covax at the Dakar Blaise Diagne International Airport. IMAGES
The Nobel Prize for Medicine is awarded jointly to Hungarian biochemist Katalin Kariko and American physician Drew Weissman for their work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that led to the creation of Covid-19 vaccinations. SOUNDBITE
Images show vehicles driving on a highway in Israel's Shar Agay area, west of Jerusalem, as they participate in the "Freedom Convoy" against the government's Covid-19 restrictions. IMAGES
Canadian truckers stage a protest outside the parliament against Covid vaccine mandates, in Canada's capital Ottawa. The trucker-led protests have shut down central Ottawa for 14 days, trying to force the government to lift Covid-19 health regulations. The so-called Freedom Convoy began last month in western Canada -- launched in anger at requirements that truckers either be vaccinated, or test and isolate, when crossing the US-Canada border. IMAGES
Thousands of demonstrators from across the US march in Washington, DC, to decry Covid-19 mandates. Mostly maskless, the protesters walk from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in a city that has adopted mask and vaccine mandates. IMAGES
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