Queen Elizabeth urges vaccine-hesitant to think of others - a podcast by BBC World Service

In a video call with British health workers she said 'it didn't hurt at all', and while she understood getting a jab could be a 'difficult' experience for some people she urged everyone to 'think about other people rather than yourselves'. Also: Sri Lanka ends the forced cremation of people who have died from Covid-19, and Russian diplomats find an original way out of North Korea because of coronavirus travel restrictions.

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