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Tokyo calls for state of emergency over virus third wave

Tokyo's governor on Saturday asked Japan's central government to declare a new state of emergency as the country battles a third wave of the coronavirus, with record numbers of new cases.

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Brazil army will go door-to-door in fight against Zika

Some 220,000 soldiers will hand out leaflets door-to-door across Brazil on Saturday, ahead of a massive insecticide-spraying operation as the government tries to stem an outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

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WHO rejects calls to move Olympics over Zika fears

The World Health Organization has ruled out any change in timing or the location of the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, shunning a call by doctors and scientists to shift the event over the Zika virus.

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Olympics: WHO committee says low risk of Zika spread

There is a "very low risk" of the Zika virus spreading further internationally as a result of the Olympic Games in Brazil, the World Health Organization's emergency committee on the disease said Tuesday.

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