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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Alexei Druzhinin/AP/Shutterstock (12536354a) Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev gestures while speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Moscow, Russia. Dmitriev said Russia plans to provide up to 300 million doses of its Sputnik vaccine to the U.N.-backed initiative, COVAX, once the vaccine is approved by the World Health Organization Virus Outbreak Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation - 01 Apr 2021

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Why won't the West embrace Russia’s highly effective covid-19 vaccine?

Scepticism in Western countries around Russia’s vaccine reflects politics not science – the Sputnik V vaccine has the highest protection against symptomatic disease of any covid-19 vaccine

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We failed to prevent omicron – can we stop future variants evolving?

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$A healthcare worker performs laboratory tests which detect immunoglobulin class G (IgG) antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 virus in blood at a medical centre of the INVITRO private healthcare company. Peter Kovalev/TASS (Photo by Peter Kovalev\TASS via Getty Images)$

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How likely are you to get reinfected now that omicron is spreading?

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A health worker speaks with a driver in the drive-thru area of the Testaro Covid-19 mobile testing site outside Richmond Corner shopping center in the Milnerton district of Cape Town, South Africa, on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. South Africa announced the discovery of a new variant, later christened omicron, on Nov. 25 as cases began to spike and the strain spread across the globe. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Omicron looks set to cause a huge wave of covid-19 around the world

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Covid-19 news archive: September to October 2021

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Covid-19 news archive: September to October 2021

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AI predicts which mammals are most likely to spread covid-19

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AI predicts which mammals are most likely to spread covid-19

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Covid-19 vaccine tested with suction technique similar to cupping

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Covid-19 vaccine tested with suction technique similar to cupping

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A student waits to receive a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine dose at a vaccination centre set up inside a school in Iran's capital Tehran on October 7, 2021. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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Nearly every person in Iran seems to have had covid-19 at least once

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Crowd in football stadium

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Football teams lost home advantage in lockdowns but it is coming back

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A vaccination clinic at an elementary school in Louisville, Kentucky, in April.

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Prioritising covid vaccines for people of colour may have saved lives

Black and Indigenous people and people of colour are more at risk from covid-19, and new modelling suggests that prioritising vaccines based on race or neighbourhood in addition to age could have led to fewer deaths

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Covid-19 news archive: July to September 2021

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Blood test could reveal who is most likely to get severe covid-19

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Covid-19 dashboard: Cases, deaths and vaccinations

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Mu variant of covid-19 (B.1.621)