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#BREAKING Covid vaccine firms at G20 meet pledge 3.5 billion doses for poorer nations in 2021-22

#UPDATE Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson told a #G20 health summit on Friday they will supply around 3.5 billion #COVID19 vaccine doses at cost or discount to poorer nations this year and next u.afp.com/UnGU

#BREAKING Germany to give 30 mn Covid-19 virus vaccine doses to poorer nations by end-2021: Merkel

#BREAKING Germany classifies Britain as a zone of virus 'variants mutation'

#BREAKING Germany imposing quarantine on travellers from Britain: health institute

#BREAKING Latin America and Caribbean surpass million Covid-19 deaths: AFP count

#UPDATE The IMF on Friday proposed a $50 billion plan to end the Covid-19 pandemic, aiming to expand global immunisation drives, while vaccine firms pledged to supply billions of doses to poorer nations by the end of next year

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#UPDATE More than 90 percent of deaths in Latin America and the Caribbean were registered in five countries that account for 70 percent of the region's population: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Peru

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#UPDATE Starting May 23 people travelling to Germany from Britain must submit to a two week quarantine period even if they can provide a negative Covid-19 test result

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