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The international team of experts in China investigating how the outbreak started will speak to the media in Wuhan on Tuesday, the WHO has announced.
The briefing, at 4:00pm local time (0800 GMT) at a hotel in the city, will be live-streamed in English on the UN health agency’s digital and social media platforms.
More on the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine and the South African variant, from AFP:
South Africa, the continent’s hardest-hit nation, had been due to start its campaign in the coming days with a million AstraZeneca doses.
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