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Images of Guy's hospital in London as a massive vaccination campaign against Covid-19 has started in the UK. Regulators in Britain -- one of the worst-affected countries with more than 61,000 deaths from 1.6 million cases -- became the first to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for general use last week. IMAGES
The Health Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Samuel-Roger Kamba, thanks the European Union after the first vaccines against Mpox, donated by the EU arrived in the country, the epicentre of the epidemic, which is due to receive a total of 200,000 doses this week. "My initial reaction is one of joy and satisfaction at the cooperation we have with the European Union," Kamba adds. SOUNDBITE
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Minister of Racial Equality Anielle Franco hold an event to announce her political affiliation with the Workers Party (PT) in the Lapa neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. IMAGES
The sun sets on Kensington Palace, the official London residence of Britain's Prince and Princess of Wales as Catherine announces that she has cancer and is in the early stages of chemotherapy, asking for "time, space and privacy" as she completes her treatment. Kate, as she is widely known, says the discovery of cancer, after successful abdominal surgery in January, was "a huge shock" but she is "well and getting stronger every day". IMAGES
Speaking at the beginning of Prime Minister’s Questions, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says that “the thoughts of the House and the country are with the king and his family” and that he wishes King Charles “a speedy recovery.” King Charles III has been diagnosed with an undisclosed form of cancer and is undergoing treatment. SOUNDBITE