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3.27pm BST

In the US, residents of Los Angeles are again required to wear masks, whether or not they have been vaccinated, amid a spike in coronavirus cases, hospitalisations and deaths.

The rule went into effect in America’s largest county on Saturday after a big increase in cases, caused by the Delta variant. Officials said the bulk of new cases are among unvaccinated people.

3.14pm BST

Leaked correspondence shows that AstraZeneca pledged it would supply around 6m doses of its vaccine per month to Thailand – contradicting claims that the country was promised 10m.

Reuters reports:

Thailand’s push for 10 million monthly doses comes as it considers imposing vaccine export curbs on Thai-manufactured vaccine to shore up domestic supplies, a move that could create problems for its neighbours, some of which are battling similar or more severe coronavirus crises.

But a June 25 letter by AstraZeneca to Thailand’s health minister showed that the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker had offered to supply just 5-6 million doses a month to Thailand from a local plant, or one third of the amount produced by its partner Siam Bioscience, which is owned by Thailand’s king.

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Source: The Guardian