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6.39pm BST

Britons' hunger for takeaways grew even bigger in the first six months of 2021 as lockdown restrictions led to a 76% increase in orders on the JustEat delivery app.

Consumers stuck at home placed 135m orders, 58m more than in the equivalent period last year. JustEat said people were eating takeaways more often, with the average customer ordering more than three times a month, compared with 2.5 times in 2020. The company said it had also made big market-share gains in London.

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6.14pm BST

More than 50% of the Swiss population has now been fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

The Alpine nation is using the two-dose Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, administering the doses four weeks apart. Government statistics showed that 50.1% of the population - 4,311,432 people - had received both injections, AFP reports.