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11.12pm BST

Bahamians headed to the polls on Thursday to elect a new government as the islands continued to reel from an ongoing surge in Covid cases and slump in the tourism-dependent economy due to the pandemic, Reuters reports.

The prime minister Hubert Minnis of the Free National Movement (FNM) is hoping to become the first premier in 24 years to win a second five-year term. But his party was neck-and neck with the opposition Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) in polls ahead of the snap election.

10.35pm BST

Brazil's federal government wants to halt Covid vaccinations for most of the country's adolescents, citing adverse events and a death under investigation after some 3.5 million teens have already been immunised, but several state governments vowed to press on.

Reuters reports that at a news conference, the health minister Marcelo Queiroga criticised states and cities for jumping the gun by vaccinating 12- to 17-year-olds without health issues that put them at risk of severe Covid, which he said was only supposed to start on Wednesday.