Coronavirus live news: French told to avoid Spain and Portugal holidays; travel curbs proposed in Thailand
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Marine Strauss reports for Reuters from Brussels that the European Union’s executive has approved Cyprus’ plan to spend €1.2bn (£1.03bn) worth of special funds from the EU, aimed at restarting economic growth hampered by the pandemic.
The aid is part of the EU’s unprecedented economic stimulus totalling €800bn to be distributed among the 27 member states.
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China says it administered about 10.7m doses of Covid vaccines yesterday. Reuters report this takes the total to 1.342bn doses. That’s around a third of the vaccine shots that have been administered around the world, according to the figures being tracked by Johns Hopkins university, which puts total vaccinations at 3.3bn.
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