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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
Residents of an Ehpad (home for the elderly, Eds.) near Tours in Indre-et-Loire are vaccinated against Covid-19. IMAGES
Wearing white laboratory coat and hair net, French President Emmanuel Macron tours the production site in Chartres, southwest of Paris, of Novo Nordisk . In a deal to be sealed officially with Macron today, Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk will invest 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in this existing facility to expand capacity for a blockbuster anti-obesity drug. Novo Nordisk is the European Union's most valuable company with market capitalisation of around $460 billion, mostly thanks to growing use of its anti-diabetes drugs as weight-loss derivatives. IMAGES
The World Health Organisation says it is 'very concerned' about the Covid situation in China amid 'increasing reports of severe disease' and urged Chinese authorities to provide 'more detailed information' of the situation on the ground during a press conference in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne holds a meeting on Covid-19 via videoconference with the prefects and directors of regional health agencies, as Europe currently experiences a seventh wave of the epidemic. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the Elysee Palace in Paris. IMAGES
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