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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
The Health Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Samuel-Roger Kamba, thanks the European Union after the first vaccines against Mpox, donated by the EU arrived in the country, the epicentre of the epidemic, which is due to receive a total of 200,000 doses this week. "My initial reaction is one of joy and satisfaction at the cooperation we have with the European Union," Kamba adds. SOUNDBITE
The Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of an mpox outbreak, receives its first vaccines -- almost half of 200,000 doses donated by the European Union and due to arrive by the end of the week to fight its spread. IMAGES
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