Here’s a roundup of what happened today: Passengers on flights into the UK from India must now enter hotel quarantine as the country is officially added to the UK’s coronavirus travel red list. As of 4am on Friday, people returning from India must quarantine in a government-approved hotel for 10 days. Hospitals in India have been consumed by a desperate scramble for oxygen after the country recorded the world’s highest daily tally of coronavirus cases for a second consecutive day, pushing health services to the brink. Coronavirus vaccines “remain out of reach” in the poorest countries. In a report on Friday, marking the first anniversary of the COVAX dose-sharing facility, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has denounced “inequities” in vaccine distribution. Mark Drakeford, the first minister in Wales, has denied that his decision to bring forward the easing of some restrictions in Wales by two weeks is to do with the forthcoming Senedd election. The Welsh Labour leader said the changes are due to the creation of “extra headroom” in the public health situation amid criticism from opposition parties. One shot of the Oxford/AstraZeneca or Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine reduces coronavirus infections by nearly two-thirds and protects older and more vulnerable people as much as younger, healthy individuals, a study has found. Infection levels in England continue to fall. Around one in 610 people in private households in England had Covid-19 in the week to April 16, according to the latest estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). England’s R number has risen slightly to between 0.8 and 1, according to latest figures released by by the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage). The public should be able to ditch face masks over the summer as vaccines do the heavy lifting in controlling Covid-19, government scientific advisers believe. Europe’s drug regulator reiterated on Friday that benefits of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine outweigh any risks, after determining that serious side-effects of rare blood clots are likely to occur in one out of 100,000 vaccinated people, according to Reuters. We are closing this liveblog shortly. Thanks so much for joining me today. I hope you have a restful weekend.