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12.19pm BST
This from my colleague Jason Rodrigues in London:
Crowds urged not to gather to pay respects to Prince Philip, nonetheless around 200 hundred people are outside Buckingham Palace having arriving on foot and some even by penny farthing pic.twitter.com/GXWIsX9MmP
12.06pm BST
The South African Covid-19 variant can “break through” Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study in Israel found, though its prevalence in the country is low and the research has not been peer-reviewed.
Reuters reports:
The study, released on Saturday, compared almost 400 people who had tested positive for Covid-19, 14 days or more after they received one or two doses of the vaccine, against the same number of unvaccinated patients with the disease. It matched age and gender, among other characteristics.
The South African variant, B.1.351, was found to make up about 1 percent of all the Covid-19 cases across all the people studied, according to the study by Tel Aviv University and Israel’s largest healthcare provider, Clalit.
Continue reading… Source: The Guardian: Covid live: Iran records its highest daily death toll this year; India administers 100m doses of coronavirus vaccine ———