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A Covid-19 testing center in the US capital Washington, DC, the morning after the country surpassed 10 million confirmed coronavirus cases, according to a Johns Hopkins University tally. IMAGES
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne holds a meeting on Covid-19 via videoconference with the prefects and directors of regional health agencies, as Europe currently experiences a seventh wave of the epidemic. IMAGES
People queue outside a Covid-19 test center as Germany hits a record 100,000 daily Covid-19 cases. Germany's daily toll of new Covid-19 cases has topped 100,000 for the first time, according to data from the country's public health agency. IMAGES
French professor Didier Raoult, director of the Marseille university hospital and microbiologist, has been sanctioned with a "reprimand" by the disciplinary chamber of the Order of Physicians of New Aquitaine, who analysed two complaints filed against him in late 2020. IMAGES
Passengers walk in a terminal at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands after authorities test whether 61 passengers who tested positive for Covid-19 after arriving from South Africa have the new Omicron strain. IMAGES
Scientists in South Africa say they have detected a new Covid-19 variant with multiple mutations, blaming it for a surge in infection numbers. The variant, which goes by the scientific lineage number B.1.1.529, "has a very high number of mutations". SOUNDBITE