France will give the Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna vaccine as a second dose to people aged under 55 who have already received a first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab, as part of its response to concerns about rare blood clotting incidents. The decision was announced on Friday after a recommendation from the Haute Autorité de Santé,...
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Ministry of Health: 3510 new infections, 37 deaths
The Ministry of Public Health announced 3510 new coronavirus infection cases, which raises the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 489428. 37 deaths have been recorded over the past 24 hours.
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Ministers of Information, Health discuss journalists’ vaccination mechanism
Caretaker Ministers Manal Abdel Samad of Information and Hamad Hassan of Public Health held a meeting on Thursday during which they agreed to allocate 8,000 coronavirus vaccine shots to the press and media body. The pair also discussed the mechanism of vaccinations of journalists and agreed to hold a press conference on Monday to announce...
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German State Signs Agreement For Sputnik Purchase Pending Regulatory Approval
The German state of Bavaria has signed an agreement to buy 2.5 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine once it is approved by European regulators. Markus Soeder, the premier of the southeastern German state, said on April 7 that Bavaria signed a memorandum of understanding for the supply of Sputnik V. If the...
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EU drug regulator: Unusual blood clot is ‘very rare AstraZeneca side effect’
The EU’s medicines regulator says unusual blood clots should be listed as a very rare side effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine for Covid-19. After a study looking at 86 such cases in the EU, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) concluded the benefits of the vaccine outweighed the risk. There was no definite causal link, and...
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Ministry of Health: 3120 new infections, 33 deaths
The Ministry of Public Health announced 3120 new coronavirus infection cases, which raises the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 485918. 33 deaths have been recorded over the past 24 hours.
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Britain advises alternative to Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for under-30s
Britain should give an alternative to Oxford/AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to under the 30s where possible due to a “vanishingly” rare side effect of blood clots in the brain, Britain’s vaccine advisory committee said on Wednesday. Safety concerns have prompted more than a dozen countries in recent weeks to suspend the use of the vaccine, which...
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Ministry of Health: 2296 new infections, 36 deaths
The Ministry of Public Health announced 2296 new coronavirus infection cases, which raises the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 482798. 36 deaths have been recorded over the past 24 hours.
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(Update) Batches of China’s Sinopharm vaccine reach Lebanon
A Qatar Airways plane carrying 50 thousand shots of China’s Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine has arrived at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International airport, as a donation from the Chinese authorities to the Lebanese government and for the benefit of the Lebanese army. Welcoming the plane at the airport had been Caretaker Minister of Public Health, Dr. Hamad Hassan,...
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EMA official links AstraZeneca vaccine and thrombosis
A top official in the European Medicines Agency said in an interview published Tuesday that there is a link between the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and blood clots. “In my opinion, we can say it now, it is clear there is a link with the vaccine. But we still do not know what causes this reaction,”...