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Robin MILLARD

Pandemic Agreement Talks Come To The Crunch

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The talks are being held behind closed doors at the WHO's headquarters in Geneva (Credit: AFP)

Countries trying to thrash out a global agreement on handling future pandemics are hoping to seal the deal Friday after weeks of creeping progress in exhausting talks.

Having ploughed past several previous deadlines, the hard stop of next week's annual gathering of the World Health Organization's 194 member states is now in clear sight.

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