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Russian lawmakers approve legislation in a first reading that will require people to show health passes to access places like bars and restaurants, as the country gears up for a winter Covid wave. Russia is one of the hardest-hit countries with more than 10 million infections and has Europe's highest death toll from the pandemic. IMAGES
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirms that a fully vaccinated White House official tested positive for Covid-19. "The White House medical unit has conducted contact tracing, interviews and determined no close contacts among White House principals or staff or the president," Psaki says at a press briefing in Washington. SOUNDBITE
Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Rochelle Walensky says fully vaccinated Americans can go without masks outdoors, except in crowded settings. SOUNDBITE
President Joe Biden's administration anticipates distributing at least three million doses of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine should it receive Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients says in a news briefing. SOUNDBITE
A China People's Liberation Army Air Force aircraft carrying 600,000 doses of the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine lands at an airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Premier Hua Sen, who is at the airport overseeing the arrival of the vaccines, said in January China donated one million doses of the Covid-19 jabs to the Southeast Asian kingdom. IMAGES