Coronavirus live: Covax vaccine-sharing scheme to get 575m fewer shots than thought; UK reports 38,975 new cases

Covax initiative to receive fewer anti-Covid shots due to restrictions on key supplier; UK also reports a further 191 Covid-linked deaths

• German Covid super-spreader event driven by poor ventilation'
• Nearly 300% more Covid patients in US hospitals than a year ago
• New Zealand to rethink plan to reopen borders amid Delta outbreak
• Idaho enacts crisis standards of care' protocol to battle Covid
• UK decision on Covid vaccine boosters expected on Thursday

9.55pm BST

Idaho public health leaders have activated crisis standards of care" allowing healthcare rationing for the state's northern hospitals because there are more patients with coronavirus than the institutions can handle.

The Idaho department of health and welfare quietly enacted the move on Monday and publicly announced it in a statement on Tuesday morning - warning residents that they may not get the care they would normally expect if they need to be hospitalised.

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The World Health Organization called on Wednesday for countries to avoid giving out extra Covid jabs until year-end, pointing to the millions worldwide who have yet to receive a single dose, AFP reports.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists:

I will not stay silent when the companies and countries that control the global supply of vaccines think the world's poor should be satisfied with leftovers.

We do not want to see widespread use of boosters for healthy people who are fully vaccinated.

We don't want any more promises. We just want the vaccines.

When I read this, I was appalled.

In reality, manufacturers and high-income countries have long had the capacity to not only vaccinate their own priority groups, but to simultaneously support the vaccination of those same groups in all countries.