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Booster programme ‘up to speed’ but not everyone will have one

A health worker holding up a bottle of coronavirus vaccine in India. The country has started incentivising vaccines in order to persuade the hesitant to come get their jab. Photos: Zuma Wire/dpa In a bid to overcome vaccine hesitancy in rural areas of India, authorities are offering everything from free fuel and seeds, to tricycles and cash in an attempt to get shots in arms. As the country tries to counter the latest deadly strain of the coronavirus, officials want to speed up the country's vaccination programme. Hundreds of millions of doses have been distributed – and the race is on to p...

Dutch hospitals call for vaccinations for all healthcare staff Photo: DutchNews.nl When describing the Covid reality in the Netherlands last week, prime minister Mark Rutte said there were two different worlds: one for those who work inside hospitals and another one for the rest of us. While we on the outside crave normalcy, café culture and festivals, those on the inside, he said, fear a code black of full beds and maximum capacity. But what healthcare workers in the nation’s hospitals actually fear is not being vaccinated. ‘The problem is not ICU beds and machines,’ says Marc van d...

Link between cerebral blood clots and AstraZeneca vaccine 'not implausible', says German regulator Number of a certain type of blood clot was 'statistically significantly higher' than the expected figure, the regulator said 17 March 2021 • 1:03pm 17 European countries have suspended their AstraZeneca vaccine campaigns Credit: Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters The number of people suffering cerebral blood clots after receiving the AstraZeneca jab in Germany was “statistically significantly higher” than the number that would have been expected in the general population, according to a report from...

Denmark, Netherlands give more details of clotting issue