Article 5JPF0 Coronavirus live news: Belgium to vaccinate 16- and 17-year-olds next month; Italy gives 600,000 jabs in a day

Coronavirus live news: Belgium to vaccinate 16- and 17-year-olds next month; Italy gives 600,000 jabs in a day

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Edna Mohamed (now); Kevin Rawlinson and Nicola Sla
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Belgian teenagers will receive Pfizer jab; Italy second in Europe for numbers fully vaccinated

11.18pm BST

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In Illinois, people could get free tickets to the Six Flags amusement park.

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10.49pm BST

The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, will urge next week's G7 summit leaders to commit to vaccinate the whole world by the end of 2022", Downing Street said on Saturday.

In the statement on the announcement, Johnson said: Vaccinating the world by the end of next year would be the single greatest feat in medical history. The world is looking to us to rise to the greatest challenge of the post-war era: defeating Covid and leading a global recovery driven by our shared values."

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