The UK becomes the first country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine which targets both the original and Omicron variants of the virus.  Also: Covid infection numbers surge in the Marshall Islands, Moderna announces its first vaccine facility in the Southern Hemisphere, and a date is set for schools to re-open in Shanghai.

UK becomes the first country to approve a jab targeting original and Omicron variants

Britain approves dual-strain Covid vaccine

Queues form outside hundreds of testing centres in the city's Chaoyang district. Also: the Peruvian government is urged to help poorer families affected by Covid, and the Indian politician Sonia Gandhi is being treated for Covid-19 in hospital.

Queues form outside hundreds of testing centres in the city's Chaoyang district

Millions of people in Beijing to be tested after outbreak

Sixty-six people are said have died, nine days after the outbreak was first acknowledged. Meanwhile, President Biden says the US has offered Covid vaccines to Pyongyang but has received no response. Also: China orders thousands of Beijing residents to relocate to quarantine hotels despite testing negative and Easter Island reopens to tourists.

Sixty-six people are said have died, nine days after the outbreak was first acknowledged

North Korea registers over 2 million cases

State media says North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un strongly criticized healthcare officials for what he called a botched response to epidemic prevention, as cases soar to more than a million. Also China's weakening economy is blamed on lockdowns.

Kim Jong-Un criticizes officials for what he called a botched response to the epidemic

North Korea sends in army to cope with Covid surge

Wearing a mask on flights and in airports in Europe will no longer be mandatory. Also: Shanghai gradually eases its lockdown restrictions, and Denmark suspends its general immunisation programme.

Wearing a mask on flights and in airports in Europe will no longer be mandatory

Face mask rules relaxed for EU air travel

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