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3.56pm BST

Norway and Lithuania have signed a deal to swap 100,000 unused Johnson & Johnson shots for an equivalent number of Pfizer doses.

Reuters reports:

Norway, which is not using the J&J shot, known as Janssen, in its national vaccination programme due to concerns about rare blood clotting issues, will lend 100,000 doses to Lithuania, the government said.

In return, Lithuania will loan 100,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Norway, with the delivery scheduled for Thursday.

3.51pm BST

Russia’s deputy prime minister Tatiana Golikova has estimated that 80% of the population may be immune to the coronavirus by November.

Reuters reported her as saying in a televised government meeting that 33.6 million Russians have been vaccinated with at least one dose of so far while 22.6 million have had two.

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Source: The Guardian