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Now playing Next Health Developing countries get free access to Spanish COVID testing tech Spain's public medical research body and the World Health Organization struck a deal that could make COVID testing cheaper and more accessible for poorer nations. 24/11/2021
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Now playing Next Health Greece pushes people to get COVID jab as number of infections rise Greece registered a record number of new infections on Monday. 09/11/2021
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