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Thousands of beachgoers enjoy Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema beach amid a heatwave reaching almost 40 degrees and increasing Covid-19 cases following the arrival of the highly contagious Omicron variant.
The French government on Monday expressed concern over a new wave of Covid-19 that has engulfed large parts of the country, introducing limited new restrictions that will see the temoprary closure of nightclubs.
Britain's Covid-19 infection numbers could rise to 100,000 a day, but the government will not implement its so-called "plan B" contingency measures at this time, health minister Sajid Javid said on Wednesday.
Agnes Buzyn, France's health minister when the global COVID-19 pandemic erupted, was on Friday indicted for "endangering the lives of others".
Health Minister Olivier Veran on Sunday urged as many French people as possible to get a Covid-19 vaccine, warning that France could be heading for a fourth wave of the epidemic by the end of the month due to the highly transmissible Delta variant. Professor of Operational Research in UCL, Christina Pagel, tells us more.
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