⁍ A vaccine is seen as a game-changer in the battle against the novel coronavirus.

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⁍ France posted more than 50,000 daily cases for the first time on Sunday.

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⁍ South Korea urged citizens to get vaccinated against influenza.

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– Pandemics aren’t always bad, and the H1N1 virus has been especially deadly for young children, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems, the New York Times reports. So far, only three children have died from the virus, which is related to the common cold but has killed more than a million people worldwide since the start of the year. The H1N1 outbreak has hit especially hard in India, Indonesia, and Pakistan, where health officials have been unable to contain the spread of the virus, which is believed to have originated in camels, Reuters reports. More than 1,000 children have died in India this year, and more than 1,000 have died in Pakistan. “This is a very bad pandemic, but it is also a very good pandemic,” the director of India’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases tells the Times. “This is a very bad pandemic, but it is also a very good pandemic.” A vaccine is in the works to combat the virus.