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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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World Health Organization's technical lead on the coronavirus pandemic, Maria van Kerkhove gestures during an interview with AFP in Geneva on October 13, 2020. (Photo by Richard Juilliart / AFP) (Photo by RICHARD JUILLIART/AFP via Getty Images)

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Maria Van Kerkhove interview: What we know about omicron so far

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Margaret Keenan was vaccinated at University Hospital, Coventry, on 8 December, 2020

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2021 in review: Billions of covid vaccinations given unequally

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Omicron may spread much more easily at social functions than other variants

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Omicron variant may make Christmas party infection risk much higher

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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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Vaccinations taking place at Derby's Pakistani Community Centre in April, 2021

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Multigenerational households a factor in covid-19 ethnic disparities

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A woman checks her EU Digital Covid certificate on her mobilephone at El Prat airport in Barcelona on July 1, 2021. - The European health certificate, which Belgium began using on June 16, 2021, will become operational across the EU on July 1, 2021. (Photo by Pau BARRENA / AFP) (Photo by PAU BARRENA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Fake covid-19 vaccine certificates are being sold on the dark web

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CARDIFF, WALES - SEPTEMBER 20: Children wear face masks during a maths lesson at Llanishen High School on September 20, 2021 in Cardiff, Wales. All children aged 12 to 15 across the UK will be offered a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. Parental consent will be sought for the schools-based vaccination programme. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

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Why has the UK been so slow to vaccinate children against covid-19?

Compared with other high-income countries, the UK has been slow to approve and roll out covid-19 vaccines to teenagers, prompting concerns over long covid and the new omicron variant

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Can omicron-specific vaccines arrive fast enough to make a difference?

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Covid booster shots are pushing protection to unexpected heights

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Omicron: How dangerous is the new variant first found in South Africa?

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What we know so far about AY.4.2 and other new coronavirus variants

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