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Images outside the Pfizer factory in Puurs, Belgium, where Covid-19 vaccines are being produced for the UK. Britain's independent medicines regulator gave a green light to the BioNTech-Pfizer drug in double-quick time but insisted safety had come first. With over 59,000 deaths from 1.6 million cases, the country's outbreak remains the deadliest in Europe. IMAGES from outside the Pfizer factory
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak demands that unionists end their boycott of the devolved government in Northern Ireland, in a speech marking 25 years of peace in the divided territory. "I urge you to work with us to get Stormont up and running again. That's the right thing to do in its own terms. And I'm convinced it's also the right thing to do for our union (UK)," Sunak says in Belfast. SOUNDBITE
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says while speaking to the press at a vaccination centre that at least one person infected with Omicron had died, as the country launches an ambitious booster programme against the variant. SOUNDBITE
A medical panel of US government advisors votes to recommend authorizing the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for five-to-11-year-olds, paving the way for younger children to get their shots within weeks. Seventeen of the independent experts convened by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted in favor and one abstained. IMAGES
The EU is to donate another 200 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to low-income countries, more than doubling its present pledge, the bloc's chief Ursula von der Leyen announces. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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