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Latest coronavirus news as of 5pm on 13 April
There have been six reports of rare blood clots among more than 6.8 million people in the US who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
US health authorities, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recommended a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson covid-19 vaccine on 13 April as a precautionary measure, following reports of rare blood clots in six people who had received the vaccine. More than 6.8 million doses of the single-shot vaccine had been administered across the US as of 13 April. Among these, there were six reports of a rare blood clotting condition called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), which affects blood vessels in the brain, all of which were among women aged 18 to 48. A special meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will review the reports on 14 April,
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KARACHI, Pakistan
Pakistan will get a third batch of 500,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine from China as a gift, an official said on Tuesday.
Nosheen Hamid, the parliamentary health secretary, told reporters that Beijing will provide another half-million doses of Sinopharm vaccine as a gift in the next few weeks.
China has already donated one million doses in two batches to its longtime South Asian ally.
A Health Ministry official who declined to be named told Anadolu Agency that the promised doses will be delivered by the end of April.
Kenya Joins South Africa’s Ramaphosa in Calling Out ‘Vaccine Apartheid’
Officials are accusing rich countries of hoarding vaccines and closing borders to African countries.
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Kenya has joined South Africa in accusing rich countries of perpetrating a “vaccine apartheid” and leaving low- and middle-income countries short of vaccines to combat COVID-19.
People who received the first shot of vaccines developed by Sinovac and AstraZeneca need not worry about the supply for their second dose, Malacañang said Monday.
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