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US President Joe Biden will order flags on all US federal buildings to be lowered to half mast in commemoration of the imminent half million mark in the country's death toll from Covid-19, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
A UK parliament committee has ruled that Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs over Covid lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street when he was prime minister. The cross-party Privileges Committee said Johnson would have been suspended as an MP for 90 days for "repeated contempts (of parliament) and for seeking to undermine the parliamentary process", had he not already resigned after being shown a pre-publication version of the report. IMAGES of the report
Hong Kong's leader John Lee announces that the city will fully scrap the mask mandate: "I have an announcement to make, the mask mandate will be fully scrapped starting tomorrow, 1st March." SOUNDBITE
The World Health Organization will continue pushing until it finds an answer to how the Covid-19 pandemic started, the agency chief says, following a report suggesting it had abandoned the search. SOUNDBITE
President Joe Biden plans to speak soon to incoming British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the White House says. "President Biden looks forward to speaking with... Sunak in the upcoming days and to our continued close cooperation with the United Kingdom," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre tells reporters during a briefing. SOUNDBITE
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