Coronavirus live: Merkel backs national lockdown in Germany while Bolsonaro rules one out in Brazil
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11.09pm BST
The highly infectious Kent variant of Covid-19 is the most dominant lineage" of the virus in the US, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.
Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of CDC, said hospitals are seeing more younger adults being admitted with severe disease, which can be attributed to increasing prevalence of variants.
10.51pm BST
The front page of Thursday's Guardian in the UK.
Guardian front page, 8 April 2021: Jab confidence fears as under-30s offered alternative to AstraZeneca pic.twitter.com/K2vYhld3Lb
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