Australia’s largest city Sydney has extended its lockdown for at least another two weeks.
Spain has become the third EU country to pass four million infections, after France and Italy.
China’s National Health Commission says that China has now carried out 1.4 billion vaccinations. That's as many vaccinations as there are people within China. It's also approximately a fifth of the world’s population.
Singapore has reported its highest number of local Covid cases in 10 months, following the discovery of a cluster linked to KTV karaoke lounges.
A total of 41 of 56 new community infections are linked to the KTV outbreak, the health ministry says.
Malta has changed its travel advice so anyone given an Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK, regardless of manufacture location, "is able to travel without being turned away".
Indonesia has recorded more than 40,000 daily cases for three days in a row, as it battles a devastating Covid surge.
It is now recording more daily cases than India, which fell below 33,000 per day on Tuesday, and almost 1,000 daily deaths.
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