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A quick snap from Reuters reports that Uzbekistan has started producing the Russian-developed Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine domestically in a joint project with Russia. The nation already manufactures the Chinese-developed ZF-UZ-VAC2001 vaccine on its territory.

Just a little more from the UK's education secretary and former vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi here. As part of his media round this morning he told ITV's Good Morning Britain My pledge to your viewers and the country, as the prime minister pledged, is children will catch up by the end of this Parliament. By next month, I'll have the first cut of the evaluation of the tutoring programme, but it already looks good."