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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=820 height=1060 src="cid:image004.jpg@01D70B80.9FA7C250" align=left hspace=12 alt=Image v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1"><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Zimbabwe will buy an additional 1.2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from China at a preferential price, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesman said on Wednesday, after Beijing agreed to give more free doses to the southern African country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Zimbabwe began COVID-19 vaccinations last week after receiving a donation of 200,000 doses from the China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm). The government initially aims to inoculate health workers, security forces and journalists, among others.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Chinese Ambassador Guo Shaochun said in a statement that his country had decided to double its donation of vaccines to 400,000 as part of its “solidarity and action” with Zimbabwe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba said the government, which had already bought 600,000 doses from Sinopharm and is expecting to take delivery of them next week, would increase its purchases from China.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>“Zimbabwe is also procuring more vaccines from China at a preferential price. Zimbabwe is set to purchase another 1.2 million doses from China,” Charamba wrote on Twitter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>That would bring to 1.8 million the number of COVID-19 doses being bought from China.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>Zambia's COVID-19 cases climb to 76,484<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>LUSAKA,(Xinhua) -- Zambia's cumulative COVID-19 cases have climbed to 76,484 following new cases recorded in the last 24 hours, figures released by its health ministry on Wednesday have shown.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>The country recorded 901 cases out of 5,231 tests done in the last 24 hours.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>About 367 patients were discharged during the same period, bringing the total recoveries to 69,803, representing a 91 percent recovery rate.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>The country however recorded 11 deaths during the same period, bringing the total deaths to 1,051.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>Of the total deaths, 570 are COVID-19 deaths while 481 were COVID-19 associated deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>The country's active cases stood at 5,630, with 287 hospitalized while 5,343 were being managed from homes.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Covid: Biden calls 500,000 death toll a heartbreaking milestone<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>President Joe Biden has addressed the nation as the US passed the figure of 500,000 Covid-related deaths, the highest number of any country.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>"As a nation, we can't accept such a cruel fate. We have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow," he said on Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>The president and vice-president, and their spouses, then observed a moment of silence outside the White House during a candle-lighting ceremony.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>Confirmed US infections now stand at 28.1 million, also a global record.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>"Today I ask all Americans to remember. Remember those we lost and remember those we left behind," President Biden said, calling for Americans to fight Covid together.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt'>South Africa has found about 4 000 Covid-19 re-infections<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>About 4 000 cases of re-infection with Covid-19 have been found in South Africa, Barry Schoub, the chair of the country’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Vaccines, said.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>“This is probably to a large extent due to the variant” of the virus that was first identified in the country, he said on a webinar on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>The mutation, known by scientists as B.1.351, was identified in the country last last year and has become the dominant strain in the nation. With over 1.5 million known coronavirus infections and almost 50 000 deaths, South Africa has been the hardest hit country on the continent.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>On Thursday the South African government will release the results of a study into the transmissibility of the variant, whether it can cause re-infection and whether it causes more severe disease.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt'>EU leaders bid to save summer with push for vaccine passports<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>EU leaders want to save the summer holiday season, paving the way for British holidays in Europe, a senior EU diplomat said as the bloc's leaders meet for a video summit.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>But officials warned there would be no breakthrough on vaccination passports at the meeting becuase of divides between member states on how they would work.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>Tourism dependent countries such as Greece, Spain and Croatia want the passports as soon as possible but other member states want more information on whether vaccinated people can still transmit the virus.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>The senior EU diplomat said it would be preferable to agree an international rather than just EU system.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>"If we can find a way to facilitate freedom of travel, etc. Of course we are we are open to finding ways to do so, preferably in an international context, because it's not only intra-EU flights we're thinking of, but also transatlantic and to Asia to Australia," the diplomat said.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>"I do think we need some more time to come to a common line but we are open to further technical work on trying to find a way forward."<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Keep staying home for now, Britons urged by new Government campaign<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>A new Government campaign has launched urging Britons to stay home for the time being while vaccines are rolled out and full lockdown restrictions remain.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>The campaign, which will air for the first time on ITV this evening, will feature prominently across television, radio and social media.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>Viewers are told that "every sacrifice, every day at home, every covered face - everything we're doing is helping stop the spread of Covid-19. Let's keep going."<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, said: “I know it’s been a long year but we can’t let up now. Everything we’re doing is bringing us one step closer to beating this virus.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>“The vaccine roll out is going extremely well and is saving lives - but it is not the only way we will reduce infection rates and be able to get back to normality."<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>Professor Chris Whitty said: "Vaccines give clear hope for the future, but for now we must all continue to play our part in protecting the NHS and saving lives."<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt'>No-fault compensation programme for COVID-19 vaccines is a world first<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>New programme makes compensation available to eligible individuals in 92 low- and middle-income countries without need to resort to law courts<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>This is the first and only global vaccine injury compensation mechanism<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>The programme is funded by a small levy on each dose supported by the Gavi COVAX AMC <o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>The World Health Organization (WHO) and Chubb Limited (NYSE: CB), through ESIS Inc., a Chubb company, signed an agreement on behalf of the COVAX Facility on 17 February 2021 for the administration of a no-fault compensation programme for the 92 low- and middle-income countries and economies eligible for support via the Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC) of the COVAX Facility.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>As the first and only vaccine injury compensation mechanism operating on an international scale, the programme will offer eligible individuals in AMC-eligible countries and economies a fast, fair, robust and transparent process to receive compensation for rare but serious adverse events associated with COVAX-distributed vaccines until 30 June 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>By providing a no-fault lump-sum compensation in full and final settlement of any claims, the COVAX programme aims to significantly reduce the need for recourse to the law courts, a potentially lengthy and costly process.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:120%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.35pt;font-weight:normal'>ESIS, as the independent administrator of the programme, was selected in accordance with WHO’s procurement rules and procedures, and charges no fees to applicants.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 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