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New measures, new reports and highlights: an update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.

- United States: 3rd dose for over 65s -

The United States has authorized the injection of a third dose of Pfizer's anti-Covid vaccine from the age of 65 and for people at "risk", the United States Medicines Agency announced.

The booster dose can be administered from six months after the second injection.

- Infested Brazilian Minister of Health -

Brazilian Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga was "tested positive for Covid-19" after attending the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, inaugurated by President Jair Bolsonaro, according to an official Brazilian statement.

Jair Bolsonaro, who appeared without a mask on several occasions during the trip, was not vaccinated against Covid-19 and repeated that he would be "the last" Brazilian to receive the vaccine.

- No Nobel in Stockholm again -

For the second year in a row, the winners of the Nobel Prizes in science and literature will receive their awards in their countries of residence and not in Stockholm because of the Covid pandemic, the Nobel Foundation announced on Thursday.

For the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to him in Oslo, the option of a presentation in the Norwegian capital "remains open" and a decision must be taken in mid-October.

- Compulsory vaccine for American athletes at the Winter Olympics -

American athletes selected for the next Winter Olympics, which will take place in February 2022 in Beijing, will participate on the condition of being vaccinated against Covid-19, according to guidelines unveiled by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee. United (USOPC).

During the Tokyo Summer Olympics, the USOPC did not require its members to be vaccinated and around 100 of the 613 athletes defending the American colors were not.

- A French woman sentenced for false passes -

A 19-year-old young woman, who worked at the largest vaccination center in Bordeaux, in southwestern France, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for having issued 24 fake health passes for the benefit of relatives.

The Bordeaux Criminal Court which tried her also sentenced her to ineligibility for two years and to a five-year ban on public employment.

- More than 4.7 million dead -

The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus has killed at least 4,715,909 people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources Thursday at 10 am GMT.

The United States is the country with the most deaths (681,185), ahead of Brazil (592,316), India (446,050), Mexico (273,391) and Russia (201,445).

The World Health Organization estimates, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, that the toll of the pandemic could be two to three times higher.

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