Coronavirus live news: India pauses AstraZeneca vaccine exports; Belgium, Iceland and France tighten restrictions

Noexports were made on Thursday; Belgiumimposes fresh lockdown;Iceland imposes three-week shutdown;France locks down more areasAstraZeneca plant inspected by Italian police at EU requestDelhi reportedly halts AstraZeneca vaccine exports as cases soarFrance may go on UK travel red list, Boris Johnson confirmsAngela Merkel apologises as she reverses German Easter lockdownHow Taiwan triumphed over Covid as UK faltered7.29pmGMTThe Finnish government on Wednesday proposed locking down residents of five cities, including the capitalHelsinki, and only allowing people to leave their homes for limited reasons, to curb rising coronavirus infections and hospitalisations.Reuters reports that the lockdown, which would be the first timeFinland confines people to their homes during the Covid-19 pandemic, is subject to a parliamentary vote and assessment by the constitutional law committee.7.23pmGMTSeveralCaribbean island nations have issued a plea to theUS to share its stockpile of Covid-19 vaccines with the region as it has said it would withMexico andCanada, calling on it not to neglect its “third border.”Reuters reports that the independent island states of the Caribbean archipelago - except forCuba, which is developing its own homegrown vaccines - have complained of inequitable global access to vaccines hurting countries like them without the financial or political heft to seal deals.The vulnerability of states must become an important criterion in the provision of vaccines, and the...
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