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A Christmas market in Vienna opens as a partial confinement, in place since last month due to soaring Covid cases, comes to an end. However, only the vaccinated will be able to regain their freedoms, those who have not received the required doses will have to remain at home. IMAGES
A food court has been turned into a vaccination centre in the Indonesian capital as market vendors get Covid jabs. The Southeast Asian nation, which has some of the worst virus infection rates in Asia, kicks off the second phase of its innoculation drive. IMAGES
People start getting injections at the All India Institute of Medical Science in Delhi as the nation begins one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccination programmes, hoping to end a pandemic that has killed 150,000 people in the country and torpedoed the economy. On Saturday, around 300,000 people will be vaccinated at 3,000 centres in the country. About 150,000 staff in 700 districts have been trained to administer jabs and keep records. IMAGES
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
A first delivery of mpox vaccines is expected to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the coming days, the World Health Organization's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says during a UN press briefing in Geneva. The WHO declared an international emergency over mpox on August 14, concerned by the surge in cases of a new strain, the Clade 1b, in the DR Congo and its spread to nearby countries. SOUNDBITE
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