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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
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Yangon, Jul 19 (EFE/EPA).-Myanmar's shadow National Unity Government (NUG), in opposition to the military junta, has requested urgent humanitarian assistance from the United Nations to tackle the escalating Covid-19 crisis in the country.The NUG, formed after the coup by politicians and activists opposed to the military regime, called for international emergency help to deal with the new wave of the virus that has "spiraled out of control with a death toll that is increasing daily under the mismanagement of the coup council," it said in a letter to the UN on Sunday night.The opposition group, which declares itself the legitimate government and maintains its loyalty to deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, said that the official data issued by the military junta is just "the tip of the iceberg" due to lack of systemic data collection, limited testing and the inability to access and deploy vaccines. (Camera: ARCHIVE). ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF CORONAVIRUS SITUATION, VACCINATION DRIVES, AND ANTI-COUP PROTESTS IN YANGON, MYANMAR.
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Kuala Lumpur, Jun 9 (EFE/EPA).- Malaysia opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was granted Wednesday an audience with Malaysian King to discuss COVID-19 situation and political crisis in the country. Ibrahim said he appealed to the Malaysian King Abdullah of Pahang not to extend the current state of emergency, declared in January, beyond Aug. 1. (Camera: FAZRY ISMAIl). B-ROLL OF THE EXTERIOR OF THE ROYAL PALCE IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA.
At least 115,000 health and care workers have died from Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, the World Health Organzation chief says at the opening of the organisation's main annual assembly. SOUNDBITE