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Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening.
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The bar on shipping 250,000 doses amid a row with the firm is backed by the EU.
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The former president reportedly received a coronavirus vaccine in January before he left the White House.
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Fewer people will qualify for direct payments as part of the new COVID-19 relief bill under an agreement reached by Senate Democrats and signed off on by the White House.
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The European Commission, the institution leading the purchase agreements, has been blamed for not securing enough vaccines.
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A map of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths around the world. The respiratory disease has spread rapidly across six continents and has killed at least 2 million globally.
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The UN Women Safe Cities programme developed information about COVID-19 prevention and gender-based violence in the five indigenous languages of Hñähñu, Mixteco, Purépecha, Mazahua, and Mahua, and shared them over the radio. Along with community-based loud speaker interventions in neighbourhoods most affected by the pandemic, the information campaign reached 57,000 indigenous people in the state of Jalisco.
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Originally published by The Guardian
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The COVID-19 pandemic is overshadowing the pandemic of femicides and gender-based violence against women and girls, Dubravka Šimonovic, special rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, said today, calling for the establishment of national femicide watches or observatories around the world to prevent such killings.
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