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Coronavirus chronicle

‘This Is Insane’: Africa desperately short of Covid vaccine

In Nigeria, Africa’s biggest country with more than 200 million people, only 0.1% are fully protected

Newsreader Shaun Ley’s shorts and deck shoes get-up tickled viewers. Screenshot taken off a video/BBC
Offbeat

BBC newsreader caught wearing shorts under desk on-air on hottest day of 2021 so far

Shoppers wearing protective face masks walk on the street at Tsukiji outer market, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo, Japan December 24, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato
Coronavirus chronicle

Three months before Olympics, Japan declares 'short' emergency in Tokyo