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World Service,19 Jul 2021,49 mins

England marks 'Freedom Day' as Covid infections surge

Newsday

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We hear from delighted nightclubbers and an aghast public health expert as restrictions are lifted. Only days from the opening of the Olympic Games in the middle of Japan's fifth wave, the governor of Tokyo tells the BBC that they are more determined than ever for the games to go ahead. And how the poison of the funnel web spider has a molecule which blocks the so-called "death signal" for heart attack victims.

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