Brazil s health minister asks countries with extra vaccine doses to share them
From CNN s Rodrigo Pedroso in Sao Paulo
Workers unload a 1 million-dose shipment of the Pfizer/Biontech vaccine in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 29. Nelson Almedia/AFP/Getty Images
Brazil s Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga has asked countries that have extra Covid-19 vaccine doses to share them with Brazil as soon as possible. We reiterate our call to those who have extra doses of vaccines so that they can share them with Brazil as soon as possible to allow us to succeed in advancing our broad vaccination campaign to contain the critical phase of the pandemic and avoid the proliferation of new strains and variants of the virus, said Queiroga during a virtual World Health Organization press conference.
Brazil s health minister asks countries with extra vaccine doses to share them
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Italy will ban entry to travelers from Bangladesh
From CNN s Livia Borghese
Italy will ban travelers from Bangladesh, the Italian health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
The statement said the travel ban would prevent anyone that has stayed in or transitioned through Bangladesh in the past 14 days from entering Italy.
The statement added that due to the worsening coronavirus situation in Bangladesh and India, stricter quarantine measures for people who live in Italy will be imposed, however it did not clarify details.
Some more context: India has now become home to the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak and fears of its spread across the region have prompted some countries in Europe to impose travel restrictions.