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Friday: Italy blocks export of 250,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine to Australia. Plus: what is cryptoart?

Good morning, it's Friday 5 March and this is Imogen Dewey with news on federal parliament's ongoing misogyny backlash, New Zealand's withdrawn tsunami warning, and, of course, the latest on the pandemic.

Italy has blocked the export of 250,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine to Australia in the first such intervention under the EU's controversial export authorisation scheme - alarming those concerned that the EU is moving towards a protectionist approach to vaccine supply. Germany's vaccination committee has reversed its guidance not to administer this vaccine to over-65s, in light of new studies. Predicting a time lag on vaccine impact, the World Health Organisation is urging Europeans to get back to basics" (e.g. quarantine, test and trace) to prevent a Covid resurgence.