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10.53pm BST

Brazil registers 73,380 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases above the 15 million mark. The Latin American country also recorded 2,550 deaths in the last 24 hours, making the official death toll 416,949.

10.33pm BST

The United States has administered 251,973,752 doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the country and distributed 324,610,185 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday.

The CDC tally includes two-dose vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech, as well as Johnson & Johnson's one-shot vaccine.