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WHO says pandemic ‘nowhere near over’ as France, Germany post record cases

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GENEVA: The World Health Organization has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, as France, Germany and Brazil posted new records of infections in the past 24 hours. The highly transmissible Omicron strain has spread unabated around the world, pushing some governments to impose fresh measures while speeding up the rollout of vaccine booster shots. “This pandemic is nowhere near over,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters Tuesday from the agency’s headquarters in Geneva. Europe is at the epicentre of alarming new outbreaks, with Germany’s cases soaring past 100,000 a…

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