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British Prime minister Boris Johnson announces all pandemic legal curbs in England will end later this week, urging a shift from government intervention to personal responsibility. Johnson, who has been mired in scandals that have threatened his hold on power, says the legal need for people to self-isolate when infected with Covid-19 would stop from Thursday 24 February 2022. SOUNDBITE
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
French Prime Minister Jean Castex arrives in Lille as the northern city experiences a resurgence of the Covid pandemic, and where masks are now mandatory in certain public sites. IMAGES
At the start of his appearance at the UK's Covid-19 inquiry, Prime Minister and former Chancellor Rishi Sunak says he is "deeply sorry... to all of those who lost loved ones, family members, through the pandemic." SOUNDBITE
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces £29.5 billion ($37.2 billion) of private funding for new UK projects as more than 200 CEOs descend on London for the 2023 Global Investment Summit. The investments are "a huge vote of confidence in our country's future," Sunak says in a statement before the opening of the event at Hampton Court Palace, just outside London. SOUNDBITE
UK leader Rishi Sunak announces after his trip to the Middle East that Britain is sending an additional £20 million ($24 million) of aid to help civilians in Gaza affected by the war between Israel and Hamas. SOUNDBITE
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