Coronavirus live news: Italy to relax restrictions; Latvia offers mass jabs to clear AstraZeneca backlog – as it happened

Italian restrictions to ease in many areas from 26 April; Latvia offers vaccinations following hesitancy in older population

• Brazil health minister asks women to delay pregnancy'
• Germany removes UK from risk list
• Spreading faster, hitting harder: why young Brazilians are dying of Covid
• Australia records first death from blood clots likely linked to AstraZeneca vaccine
• Malawi to bin 16,000 AstraZeneca doses amid rise in vaccine hesitancy

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Here's a roundup of tonight's updates: