Health and frontline workers are first in line for jabs at vaccination centres across the country.



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Syrian refugee Fatima Hussein Al Ahmad, a mother of four, lives on a farm with 50 other workers in Sahba, Jordan. COVID-19 travel restrictions meant that didn’t work for two months in 2020, and feeding her family became a daily struggle.



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Health officials warn the highly contagious UK Covid variant could become the dominant strain by March.



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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged authorities in Cameroon to take steps to prosecute perpetrators behind two recent deadly attacks in the Anglophone provinces of the country, his Spokesperson said on Friday. 



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An increasing number of civilians are becoming victims of the conflict in Ethiopia’s Oromia region.



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A new report from the UN’s air transportation agency confirms there was a “dramatic” fall in international air travel due to COVID-19, of around 60 per cent over the course of last year, to levels last seen in 2003.



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Many EU countries are receiving significantly fewer doses due to a change in manufacturing processes.



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The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 2 million



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With more than two million lives now lost worlwide to COVID-19, the UN Secretary-General appealed on Friday for countries to work together and help each other to end the pandemic and save lives. In a video statement, Secretary-General António Guterres noted that the absence of a global coordinated effort has worsened the pandemic’s deadly impact.



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Joe Biden’s presidential Twitter account launches with no followers transferred from President Trump.



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