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President Joe Biden will unveil a proposed budget on Thursday that would reduce the national deficit by $3 trillion over the next decade, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
"We have no problem with the number of doses available" to fight monkeypox, says Minister Delegate for Health Professions Agnès Firmin Le Bodo at the National Assembly. IMAGES
A spokesperson of the European Commission says the EU has purchased almost 110,000 vaccine doses to help tackle the monkeypox outbreak and would share them out among the bloc's members. The jabs, made by Danish firm Bavarian Nordic, are currently authorised for use in the EU against smallpox, but officials say they will also work against the monkeypox virus. SOUNDBITE
The United States will release 30 million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of an international effort to stabilize the market after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden tells members of Congress in his first State of the Union address, adding that Washington stands "ready to do more, if necessary." SOUNDBITE
Özlem Türeci, BionTech's Chief Medical Officer says that the coronavirus vaccine developed jointly by BioNTech and Pfizer neutralises the Omicron variant of the virus after three doses. A laboratory study by its makers found "three doses of our vaccine neutralise the Omicron variant", but warned that "two doses show significantly reduce neutralization of this new variant.". SOUNDBITE
The European Union has exported "over one billion" doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the past 10 months, according to the bloc's chief Ursula von der Leyen. SOUNDBITE
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