Covid news as it hsppened: case rates rise in 92% of UK’s local areas; Greece introduces fines for issuing fake vaccination certificates

Nine in ten local areas in the UK have seen a week-on-week rise in Covid-19 cases; Greek authorities to crack down on fake vaccination certificates

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Mexico's health ministry on Friday reported 14,233 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 699 deaths.

It brings the overall number of infections since the pandemic began to 3,494,232 and the death toll to 266,849, Reuters reports.