It comes as infections in the UK have dropped to their lowest level for nearly 11 months.
The end of the COVID-19 pandemic is"in sight", the World Health Organisation says.
The organisation said weekly deaths from the virus around the world are at their lowest since March 2020 - the month Britain first went into lockdown."We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic - we are not there yet, but the end is in sight," the agency's director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.
"A marathon runner does not stop when the finish line comes into view, she runs harder, with all the energy she has left. So must we. "We can see the finish line, we're in a winning position. But now is the worst time to stop running." He said it was the time to"run harder", adding:"If we don't take this opportunity now, we run the risk of more variants, more deaths, more disruption and more uncertainty. So let's seize this opportunity."
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