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UPI reports Ohio State University found nearly 40% of US residents plan to attend gatherings of ten or more people this holiday season. Despite concerns over the spread of COVID-19, one-third of respondents said they wouldn't ask attendees at holiday parties with family or friends to wear masks. The data showed that just over 25% indicated that they wouldn't practice social distancing, either. Figures from Johns Hopkins University report nearly 10.5 million people nationally have been sickened by the virus. More than 240,000 have died from it.
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
India starts giving booster vaccine shots to health workers and the elderly as the country undergoes an infection surge driven by the fast-spreading Omicron variant of the virus. IMAGES
Panama City, Oct 13 (EFE).- Panama began Wednesday to administer the third booster shot of the Pfizer vaccine to citizens over 55 years of age, who have already received the first two doses of Covid vaccine .Panama has so far recorded a total of 469,440 Covid-19 cases and 7,275 deaths since the beginning of pandemic. (Camera: CARLOS LEMOS).SHOT LIST: PEOPLE RECEIVE THE THIRD BOOSTER SHOT OF COVID-19 VACCINE IN PANAMA CITY, PANAMA.
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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