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11.24am BST

The coronavirus outbreak at Everest base camp in Nepal, controversially opened to climbers despite the pandemic, has infected many people" amid continuing evacuations and complaints of lack of transparency over the severity of the situation.

With Nepal reporting a record number of more than 7,000 new cases in a day, its highest total since October, reports from Everest described a number of evacuations of climbers showing symptoms of Covid-19 even as doctors at base camp complained privately they were not being allowed by the country's ministry of health to undertake PCR testing.

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11.19am BST

This is from Per Olsson Fridh, Sweden's minister for international development cooperation:

Sweden announces today our plans to donate one million vaccine doses to #COVAX. No one is safe until everyone is safe. Meeting @WHO @DrTedros and @Gavi @GaviSeth in Geneva today to discuss further. Hope more countries will follow our lead.