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9.53pm BST

AstraZeneca has reported a threefold rise in sales of its Covid-19 vaccine from the first quarter of 2021 to the second - but its earnings remained significantly below those of its US rival Pfizer.

Britain's biggest drugmaker revealed that it had generated $894m from Covid-19 vaccine sales in the three months to the end of June, following $275m in the first three months of the year. It has pledged to provide the jab, which it developed with Oxford University, on a not-for-profit basis during this pandemic.

Related: AstraZeneca sales of Covid vaccine triple to $1.2bn in first half of 2021

8.37pm BST

Ministers in the UK are facing growing criticism for putting France on the new amber plus" travel list, after concerns were raised about whether they focused too much on variant cases in its Reunion Island territory 5,700 miles (9,180 km) from Paris.

The UK foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, admitted on Thursday the decision to impose tougher restrictions on millions of fully vaccinated French citizens and Britons holidaying or living across the Channel was partly due to the prevalence of the Beta variant on Reunion.

Related: Ministers under fire for putting France on England's amber plus' list