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UK leader Rishi Sunak announces after his trip to the Middle East that Britain is sending an additional £20 million ($24 million) of aid to help civilians in Gaza affected by the war between Israel and Hamas. SOUNDBITE
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
Kabul (Afghanistan), Oct 9 (EFE / EPA).- Some 3.2 million children under the age of five are at risk of severe malnutrition in Afghanistan at the end of the year. This has been announced by the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), which relates the increase in these data with the takeover of the country by the Taliban.FOOTAGE OF AFGHAN CHILDREN IN KABUL.
Buenos Aires, Sep 8 (EFE) .- Argentina received Wednesday the first batch of Pfizer vaccines with 100,620 doses that will reinforce the Strategic Vaccination Plan against covid-19 that the Ministry of Health has been carrying out since December last year, according to sources. officers.
Sao Paulo (Brazil), Jun 21 (EFE).- (Camera: Wallace Carvalho) As if designing Covid-19 vaccines wasn’t already a challenge, Brazilian scientists are taking it up a notch.Experts at Butantan laboratory — currently responsible for producing the Chinese vaccine Sinovac in Brazil — are working around the clock to gather 20 million eggs to produce 40 million doses of their very own Brazilian-made Covid-19 vaccine, Butanvac.FOOTAGE OF THE BUTANTAN LAB.DOUGLAS GONÇALVES DE MACEDO, PRODUCTION MANAGER OF THE BUTANVAC.TRANSLATION:"THE AVERAGE EXPECTED YIELD IS THAT EACH EGG GIVES US TWO DOSES OF BUTANVAC.""EACH EGG IS GOING TO RECEIVE A SMALL AMOUNT OF THE VIRUS THAT WE ARE WORKING ON AND AFTER THAT PROCESS IT IS INCUBATED TWO OR THREE DAYS, WITH CONTROLLED TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY.""THE PRODUCTION OF THE IFA IS VERY SIMILAR TO THE PRODUCTION OF THE FLU VACCINE, IT USES THE SAME PLATFORM, SAME FACTORY."
Kolkata, May 4 (EFE/EPA).- India on Tuesday surpassed 20 million coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, registering 357,229 new cases in the last 24 hours, while a virulent second wave has strained the country's healthcare system.The South Asian country also reported 3,449 deaths in 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities to 222,408, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, while experts believe that the actual figures could be significantly higher.Tuesday's figures represent a fall in the number of infections for the third consecutive day, after India recorded more than 400,000 cases on Saturday. However, the number of deaths have remained on its upward trend. (Camera: PIYAL ADHIKARY).SHOT LIST: DAILY LIFE IN KOLKATA, INDIA, AMID CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC.