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1.37pm GMT
Sweden has registered 11,804 new coronavirus cases since Friday, the country's health agency statistics showed on Tuesday, compared with 10,933 cases during the same period last week.
A further 56 deaths were also registered in the country of 10 million, a fall from 64 during the corresponding period last week. The deaths registered have occurred over several days and sometimes weeks, according to Reuters.
1.22pm GMT
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was vaccinated during a visit to the frontline in the eastern Donbass region on Tuesday, hoping to reassure sceptics that the vaccine is safe and effective in a country with a high degree of hesitancy.
Ukraine has only just begun inoculating its 41 million people after its first batch of 500,000 Indian-made AstraZeneca shots landed in the country last month. Frontline health workers and the military are being prioritised in the rollout, Reuters reports.
Got vaccinated against COVID19. Did this on the frontline with our soldiers as Supreme C-in-C [Commander in Chief]," Zelenskiy tweeted.
The same Oxford/AstraZeneca (Covishield) from India, which was delivered 1st to UA (Ukraine) & received by millions of people in the world. Vaccine will let us live without restrictions again."
Got vaccinated against #COVID19. Did this on the frontline with our soldiers as Supreme C-in-C. The same Oxford/AstraZeneca (Covishield) from India, which was delivered 1st to & received by millions of people in the world. Vaccine will let us live without restrictions again pic.twitter.com/1diLtuRmqK
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