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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive Wednesday for Covid-19 and will shift to a virtual work schedule, the State Department says. "The good news is that he is fully vaccinated, he is boosted, he is experiencing only mild symptoms," the spokesperson for the State Department, Ned Price, tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
The English variant, presumably more contagious, accounts for about 1% of positive Covid-19 tests in France, according to the preliminary results of a survey conducted over two days last week, says French's Health Minister Olivier Véran. SOUNDBITE
Images outside the White House in Washington DC, where US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are quarantining after testing positive for the novel coronavirus. IMAGES
British MPs arrive for a cabinet meeting with Boris Johnson in Downing Street the morning after it was announced British health minister Nadine Dorries has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Finance minister Rishi Sunak will present the first post-Brexit budget in Parliament after his predecessor Sajid Javid resigned unexpectedly last month. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden is "absolutely not" withdrawing from the 2024 election campaign, his spokeswoman says, as pressure mounts on him to pull out following a disastrous debate showing. SOUNDBITE