STOCKHOLM: The Swedish Medical Products Agency said today the benefits of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine outweighed the risks after the EU drug regulator said it had found a possible link between the shot and rare blood clots. Sweden paused the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine in March after reports of […]
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STOCKHOLM: Sweden, which has shunned lockdowns throughout the pandemic, registered 6,814 new coronavirus cases today, health agency statistics showed. The country of 10 million inhabitants registered 45 new deaths, taking the total to 13,578. The deaths registered have occurred over several days and sometimes weeks. Sweden’s death rate per capita […]
NEW DELHI: Many Indian state leaders have asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to open up vaccinations to most of the country’s hundreds of millions of adults, following a second surge in infections that has eclipsed the first wave. India breached the grim milestone of 100,000 daily infections for the first […]
SYDNEY: Australia today said it had not yet received more than three million doses of previously promised AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine doses amid export curbs by the European Union, leaving a major hole in its early nationwide inoculation drive. Authorities had pledged to administer at least four million first doses of […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison hold a joint press conference at Admiralty House in Sydney February 28, 2020. Both countries have managed the Covid-19 crisis more successfully than most other developed nations. WELLINGTON: New Zealand will allow quarantine-free visits by Australians from […]
LONDON: The UK medical regulator said Saturday (Apr 3) that out of 30 people who suffered blood clots after receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, seven have died. The British acknowledgement of deaths comes as several European countries have paused the use of the AstraZeneca jab over a potential link to blood […]
LONDON: Britain could approve Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine next month, the chief investigator for the shot’s trial told the Evening Standard newspaper. “The regulator will do a very detailed and thorough review and will decide in good time,” said Professor Paul Heath, chief investigator for the Novavax jab trial in the […]
MANILA: The Philippines’ health ministry on Monday recorded 10,016 new coronavirus infections, the country’s third record daily spike in cases over the past five days. In a bulletin, the ministry said total confirmed cases had increased to 731,894, while confirmed deaths reached 13,186, including 16 more casualties today. Most of […]
DUBAI: Yemen’s coronavirus committee urged the government today to declare a public health “state of emergency” after a surge in infections in the war-torn country. Six years of civil war has left Yemen’s weak healthcare system in ruins, and this week the country reported more than 100 cases in a […]
MANILA: New coronavirus infections in the Philippines hit a record high today, health officials said, as pandemic restrictions were tightened in the capital to combat the resurgence in cases. Museums, game arcades and driving schools have been ordered to shut, while church and restaurant capacity has been reduced to 30 […]