By Conway Crew
May 11, 2021
A 23-year-old Italian woman got quite a scare after a distracted nurse injected her with six doses of Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine, health officials say.
The accidental overdose occurred Sunday in Tuscany, according to the Italian Health Ministry. The patient was observed for 24 hours after receiving the overfilled shot and displayed no adverse reactions, doctors say. The patient did not have fever and did not have any pain except for pain at the inoculation site, nor any other manifestations, says Dr. Antonella Vicenti. She was a bit frightened, thus we preferred to keep her here until this morning.
Nicole Winfield May 10, 2021 - 11:16 PM
ROME - A top World Health Organization official has strongly denied making false statements to Italian prosecutors about a spiked U.N. report into Italyâs coronavirus response, doubling down on his assertions in court documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Dr. Ranieri Guerra, a WHO special adviser, outlined his position in a 40-page response, with a 495-page annex, to prosecutors who placed him under investigation last month for having allegedly made false statements to them when he was questioned Nov. 5.
The prosecutorsâ claims create a picture âthat is quite different from the reality of the facts and above all, are imprecise and donât adhere to the reconstruction of events that Dr. Guerra provided,â said the response signed by Guerraâs Rome-based attorney, Roberto De Vita.
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ISLAMABAD â Pakistan on Saturday received its first supply of COVID-19 vaccines through the U.N.-backed COVAX initiative, over 1.2 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
The prime ministerâs special aide on health, Dr. Faisal Sultan, asked people over age 40 to register for shots and said the Pakistani government would soon be able to expand its immunization program to other age groups.
A statement issued by Pakistanâs National Command and Operations Center said that 1,238,400 vaccine doses arrived in the first COVAX allocation while another batch of 1,236,000 was expected to arrive in a few days.
NEW DELHI — India opened vaccinations to all adults this month, hoping to tame a disastrous coronavirus surge sweeping the country, but since then the pace of administering the shots
The Latest: France welcomes EU curb on AstraZeneca vaccine
PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed the decision from the European Union not to renew its order for the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Macron said the EU policy is aiming at “responding in particular to the variants… We see that some other vaccines are more efficient.”
The bloc’s Internal Market Commissioner, Thierry Breton, said Sunday the EU Commission has not ordered AstraZeneca shots for after June. Two weeks ago, the EU launched legal proceedings against the pharmaceutical group for allegedly failing to respect the terms of its contract.
South Africa halted earlier this year the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine after preliminary data indicated it may be only minimally effective against the variant which is dominant in the country.