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Swedish voters cast their ballots for the general election at a polling station in Stockholm. Incumbent Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, head of the opposition conservative Moderates Ulf Kristersson, and far-right leader Jimmie Akesson face off as the three main candidates in the election. IMAGES
Medical staff at Rome's Spallanzani hospital receive the PFizer-BioNTech vaccination as IMAGES
Frontline healthcare workers receive the Covid-19 vaccine at the Memorial Healthcare System Hospital in Miramar, Florida. Hospital officials say they expect to vaccinate 1,100 to 1,200 people per day at the facility, as the United States kicks off a mass vaccination drive, hoping to turn the tide on the world's biggest coronavirus outbreak. IMAGES
Andrea Ammon, Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, says in an online interview with AFP that potential vaccines developed against Covid-19 could "optimisitically" be brought into use in the EU in the first quarter of 2021, emphasising that she could not be certain. SOUNDBITE
Megaphone in hand, Bangladeshi volunteer Mehruz Rehman goes around refugee camps in southeast Bangladesh, urging Rohingyas refugees to get vaccinated against cholera. IMAGES