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11.30pm BST

Brazil recorded 2,616 new Covid-19 deaths and 71,832 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, the country's health ministry said.

Brazil, which has the second-highest death toll after the US, has recorded 13.45 million cases and more than 350,000 deaths, Reuters reports.

11.12pm BST

France will lengthen the period between the first and second shots of mRNA anti-Covid vaccines to six weeks from four weeks as of April 14 to accelerate the inoculation campaign, health minister Olivier Veran told the JDD newspaper.

That will allow us to vaccinate more quickly without reducing protection," Veran told the paper.