Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 5 December 2021

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1. Pandemic progress ‘squandered’

The Omicron variant shows that the world is “closer to the start of the pandemic than the end” and progress in combatting Covid-19 since its emergence is “being squandered,” one of Britain’s most senior scientific figures has warned. Sir Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust, said wealthy nations had been taking “a very blinkered domestic focus, lulled into thinking that the worst of the pandemic was behind us”.

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