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The World Health Organization and other aid groups appealed to leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies to fund a $23.4 billion plan to bring COVID-19 vaccines, tests and drugs to poorer countries in the next 12 months.
DEATHS AND INFECTIONS
EUROPE * Britain will remove next week the last seven countries on its coronavirus "red list". The country's cases fell nearly 10% over the past week. * The European Union will produce more than 3.5 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines next year, the head of the bloc's executive said. * The Russian capital brought in its strictest lockdown measures in more than a year as nationwide one-day pandemic deaths and infections hit new highs. * Poland must undo its new disciplinary system for judges to unlock access to billions of euros of European Union aid aimed at helping revive economic growth, which has been hit by the pandemic.
