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9.17pm GMT

Talks between Chicago’s mayor and the city’s teachers’ union on reopening the school district have broken up after the group rejected her “last, best and final offer”.

The teachers union, which represents 28,000 educators in the US’s third-largest district, said the mayor’s plan would require a suspension of in-person learning district-wide only if there were outbreaks in half of Chicago’s schools simultaneously.

8.51pm GMT

Greece has become the latest EU country to limit its rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine to people under 65, with the health ministry saying it is awaiting more data on the jab’s efficacy on older people.

“In Greece, as in other European Union countries, the AstraZeneca vaccine will be used on ages 18-64,” health ministry general secretary Marios Themistokleous said, in comments reported by Reuters.

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Source: The Guardian