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The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is dangerous, and especially so for those who have not been vaccinated against the disease, warns the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. SOUNDBITE
People wait in line in front of St Thomas's Hospital vaccination centre in London the day after Britain recorded 78,610 coronavirus cases, the highest daily total since the coronavirus pandemic began. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pleaded with all Britons to get booster jabs in the face of the spiralling infections. IMAGES
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
Özlem Türeci, BionTech's Chief Medical Officer says that the coronavirus vaccine developed jointly by BioNTech and Pfizer neutralises the Omicron variant of the virus after three doses. A laboratory study by its makers found "three doses of our vaccine neutralise the Omicron variant", but warned that "two doses show significantly reduce neutralization of this new variant.". SOUNDBITE
Global immunisation efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years, according to a World Health Organization study -- the equivalent of six lives saved "every minute", declares WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a press statement in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
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