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The regulatory approval comes as the Canadian province of Alberta reported its first death linked to the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine after a patient died from a rare blot condition, VITT. The patient was a woman in her 50s.
However, authorities have reiterated that the vaccine s benefits far outweigh the concerns over its safety.
It was the first death and the second case of VITT out of the roughly 250,000 doses of the vaccine administered in the province. Last month, Quebec recorded Canada s first death linked to the shot. Watch video 03:17
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Reality TV star Kim Kardashian found her name crop up in an unlikely international art smuggling row involving an ancient Roman sculpture imported to California under her name. The star has denied any knowledge of an ancient statue which was part of a $750,000 shipment in her name that was confiscated by customs authorities at a Los Angeles port in 2016 because the sculpture was ‘looted, smuggled and illegally exported from Italy’, the Daily Mail reported on May 4.
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Italian officials believe the sculpture, described as “Fragment of Myron’s Samian Athena, Limestone, Roman, 1st – 2nd century AD,” was originally looted from Italy, and they want it returned, according to a civil complaint for forfeiture filed in federal court in Los Angeles last week. The sculpture, an ancient Roman limestone statue was allegedly brought to Los Angeles in 2016 when Kardashian and her ex-husband Kanye West were renovating their Calabasas residence, but it was confisca
What is the Fragment of Myron Samian Athena?
The statue called the Fragment of Myron s Samian Athena, Limestone, Roman, 1st – 2nd century AD, which represents a person s lower half, is believed to date from the early to mid-Roman Empire. The statue was described as of classical Peplophoros style which represents a copy of an original Greek sculpture by the Italian archaeologist who examined it. Samia was an Ancient Greek city, located in the Elis region in western Peloponnese.
Although the sculpture has not yet been identified, a picture of the statue released by the Department of Justice bears a strong resemblance to an original sculpture which may have been made by Myron of Eleutherae, an Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. While none of his original sculptures are known to have survived, there are a large number of what are thought to be later marble copies, mainly Roman.
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