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The British government is hoping to deliver a boost to public spirits with news that post-pandemic foreign holidays could resume this summer — but questions remain about whether the cost of testing will make non-essential travelling abroad unaffordable for many.
Benji Hyer has the details from London.
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Member states of the Southern African Development Community have agreed to send a technical mission to Mozambique to stop the acts of terrorism perpetrated against innocent civilians in Cabo Delgado.
The heads of state revealed SADC will not allow it to continue without a proportionate regional response.
Daniel Kijo has more.
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The Australian government is recommending people under the age of 50 not take the AstraZeneca covid vaccine.
This comes following reports from around the world, of a very small number of cases of blood clotting with a potential link to the AstraZeneca jab.
Shaun Bindley reports.
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The US's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared racism to be a serious threat to public health.
The national body Is the largest federal agency to make such a statement.
Kate Fisher reports from Washington.
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Doctors at Kyoto University Hospital performed the world's first living lung transplant. The patient, whose lungs were damaged after contracting COVID-19, received parts of healthy lungs from her husband and son.
There is now hope that this procedure could cut waiting times for other patients in need of transplants.
Phoebe Amoroso reports.
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The Hong Kong government says it may organise more flights from the UK, after seats on two planes to bring back the city's residents sold out within hours.
Many Hong Kongers have been stranded there since December, following a ban on UK arrivals to Hong Kong, due to worries about Covid-19 variants.
Richard Kimber reports from Hong Kong.
South Africa’s vaccine rollout is taking much longer than originally planned. Fewer than one third of frontline healthcare workers are currently vaccinated. Government is revising its rollout targets and strategy, having signed deals with manufacturers of two different vaccines, both of which are now approved for use in South Africa. Mark Roughton reports.
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Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has condemned what he called the "bullying actions" of Myanmar's regime after the military attaché locked the country's ambassador out of the embassy in London.
It meant he was forced to spend Wednesday night in his car, having been informed he was no longer Myanmar's representative in the UK.
From London, Benji Hyer reports.
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