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China administered about 6.8 million vaccines against Covid-19 on 1 April, bringing the total number of jabs given to 126.62 million, according to data released by the National Health Commission on Friday.
Thursday’s figure marked the highest number of daily doses administered in more than a week, Reuters report.
New Covid-19 restrictions in France will impact economic growth in 2021 but it is too early to say by how much, finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday.
“These measures will impact economic growth in 2021. We are in the process of assessing it. There will be a new evalutaion in the coming days”, Le Maire told CNews television.