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Putrajaya, Oct 11 (EFE).- Malaysia, among the countries most affected by Covid-19 in Southeast Asia, has vaccinated 90 percent of its adult population, the authorities said Monday.The special committee set up for the inoculation program in the country tweeted that 90.02 percent of the population over 18 years had been completely vaccinated after nearly 130,000 doses were administered on Sunday. (Camera: FAZRY ISMAIL). B-ROLL OF PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA.
Araceli Rosario Hidalgo Sanchez, a 96-year-old living in the Los Olmos retirement home in Guadalajara, in central Spain became the first person in the country to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Carer Monica Tapias followed as the second Spaniard to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. IMAGES
Police in Florida have arrested a father accused of throwing his 5-year-old daughter off of a bridge in St. Petersburg. The girl died. Linda So reports.
"I think we're coming to that point where we can look at COVID-19 in the same way we look at seasonal influenza" says Dr Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme. Speaking at a WHO press conference, Ryan projects that COVID will, this year, become "a threat to health, a virus that will continue to kill, but a virus that is not disrupting our society or disrupting our hospital systems." 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).