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French President Emmanuel Macron says Europe is the most generous in the world with vaccine exports and criticises "Anglo-Saxons" for blocking exports as he arrives at the European Social Summit in Portugal. SOUNDBITE
A member of a British government committee advising on coronavirus vaccinations says during a press conference that most people under 30 should be offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca jab if possible, due to concerns over blood clots. SOUNDBITE
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has set a target of vaccinating 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February, announces that more than 10 million people have received a first dose of a vaccine against Covid-19 in Britain, calling the figure a "milestone". SOUNDBITE
A fire breaks out at India's Serum Institute, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer producing millions of doses of the Covishield coronavirus vaccine. But a company source said production of drugs to prevent coronavirus was not affected, saying that the blaze was at a new plant under construction. IMAGES
The rollout of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine begins as a patient in Oxford becomes the first to receive it. Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, 82, recieves the vaccination at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation. IMAGES
90-year-old grandmother Margaret Keenan has become the first person in the world to receive the officially-licenced Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, at a hospital in Coventry. IMAGES of Margaret filmed the day before her vaccination
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