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On a surprise visit to Finland to participate in a summit gathering the leaders of the five Nordic nations, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he believes "that this year will be decisive for us, for Ukraine, for Europe, decisive for victory". Zelensky's remarks come at a press conference with his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto, whose country became NATO's newest member in April in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
"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
People crowd the Champs-Elysees in Paris on another Covid-stricken New Year's Eve, as celebratory fireworks were cancelled due to a surge in Covid cases. IMAGES
Moscow celebrates 2022 with a fireworks display over an empty Red Square to which access was restricted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. IMAGES
The World Health Organization chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, calls for the world to pull together and says "2022 must be the year we end the pandemic." SOUNDBITE
At a Covid-19 press briefing, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says that the WHO needs 23.4 dollars for the ACT-Accelerator partnership of leading global health agencies to meet its global targets and "deliver the tools that are needed to countries over the next 12 months". SOUNDBITE
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