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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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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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,”...
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Batches of China’s Sinopharm vaccine reach Lebanon
A Qatar Airways plane carrying 50 thousand shots of China’s Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine has landed in Beirut airport, our correspondent reported on Tuesday.
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Lebanon to receive 50,000 vaccine doses from China
Caretaker Minister of Health, Hamad Hassan, announced today, Monday, that the Ministry of Public Health will receive, on Tuesday, a donation of an additional of 50,000 vaccines from the Sinopharm Company, through the Chinese embassy. Hassan indicated that 30,000 doses will be dedicated to the army guidance and the rest for journalists and photographers. The...
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The arrival of the eighth shipment of Pfizer vaccine
The Ministry of Public Health announced this afternoon the arrival of the eighth shipment of Pfizer vaccine to Lebanon, containing 46,800 vaccines. Lebanon has so far received 297,180 vaccines from Pfizer, the Ministry said. MoPH also reminded that the detailed number of those who have received the vaccine is published daily in its updated report...
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Firas Abiad: AstraZeneca vaccine will be offered on Monday in several centers, including our hospital
“On Monday, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health will start giving the AstraZeneca vaccine to people between the ages of 55 and 65 in several centers, including Rafic Hariri University Hospital,” tweeted RHUH Director, Dr. Firas Abiad, today. He added: “In Lebanon, more than 120 patients in this age group have died due to Corona...
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Wazni signs decree to cover the purchase of 1.5 million doses of Astrazeneca vaccine
Caretaker Finance Minister, Ghazi Wazni, signed today a decree to transfer an appropriation from the general budget reserve to the budget of the Ministry of Public Health, to cover the cost of purchasing one and a half million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine, whereby the first shipment of this quantity will arrive during the first week...
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AstraZeneca: Thailand delays vaccine rollout over blood clot fears
Thailand has delayed the rollout of the AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine over reports of blood clots, despite there being no evidence of this. The country’s prime minister was due to kick off the country’s vaccination drive by getting the jab on Friday. This has now been cancelled. The delay comes after a number of countries, including...
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The arrival of the second batch of Pfizer vaccine at Beirut airport
A Middle East Airlines flight coming from the Belgian capital, Brussels, loaded with approximately 31,500 doses of the “Pfizer” vaccine, arrived at 5:00 pm today at Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut, being the second batch to arrive in Lebanon after the first batch arrived last Saturday, NNA correspondent at the airport reported