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		</div><p>France’s health minister has received the first injection of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine at a hospital near Paris.</p>
<p>Olivier Veran argued that the jab was providing enough protection against almost all coronavirus spreading in the country.</p>
<p>France received its first batch of AstraZeneca vaccines last week, representing 273,600 doses all reserved for health professionals under 65, which includes Mr Veran, a neurologist.</p>
<p>Mr Veran’s comments come after South Africa suspended plans to inoculate its frontline healthcare workers with the AstraZeneca vaccine as a small clinical trial suggested that it is not effective in preventing mild to moderate illness from the variant dominant in the country.</p>
<p>Mr Veran said “at least 99%” of the virus circulating in France does not correspond to the variant widely spread in South Africa, which makes the AstraZeneca vaccine effective on the French territory.</p>
<p>Mr Veran said new measures are being implemented to avoid further spreading of variants imported from other parts of the world, including the one that was first identified in the UK.</p>
<p>The period of self-isolation for any person infected with one of the variants, or suspected to be, has been extended from seven to 10 days, he said.</p>
<p>Measures also include quicker contact tracing efforts and instructions to close school classes as soon as one student has been infected with a variant.</p>
<p>Meanwhile in Brazil, a minority of people will be able to pay for a Covid-19 vaccine if an association of private clinics can close a deal to bring five million shots to Latin America’s most unequal country.</p>
<p>President Jair Bolsonaro, under fire for his government’s handling of the pandemic, has promised not to interfere.</p>
<p>Amid the government’s stumbling vaccine rollout, many rich Brazilians want to find a swift path to vaccination, sparking a backlash from some public health experts and igniting debate on social media, editorial pages and talk shows.</p>
<p>There has been concern globally that the privileged could use the system to get themselves vaccinated before others.</p>
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