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The organisation that ensures fair global access to Covid-19 vaccines is looking at changing its rules after the UK got more doses than Botswana, despite having better vaccine coverage.
Reuters reports that in March, as Britain led the world in vaccination rates and almost half its people had received a shot, COVAX, the organisation meant to ensure fair global access to COVID-19 vaccines, allotted the country over half a million doses from its supplies.
Thailand will further ease its coronavirus restrictions later this week, the country’s COVID-19 task force said on Monday.
Reuters reports this morning that from Friday more businesses, including spas and cinemas, will be allowed to reopen in 29 provinces including the capital Bangkok.