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#BREAKING Biden says Covid expected to kill "well over 600,000" in US

#UPDATE "The virus is surging. We're 400,000 dead, expected to reach well over 600,000," said #PresidentJoeBiden giving his highest estimate yet for the US outbreak's eventual death toll

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Some of the new #coronavirus variants "may have increased transmissibility," but "we have no indication that the modes of transmission has changed. It spreads the same way," a #WHO official said

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#Pfizer said it will provide up to 40 million #Covid-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries through the globally-pooled #Covax effort aimed at ensuring that lower-income countries also get vaccines

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