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Marco Cantile/LightRocket via Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 5pm on 7 April UK committee advises under-30s be offered alternative to AstraZeneca jab, while EU review finds no evidence age or gender are risk factors for side effects The UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has advised that people under the age of 30 with no underlying health conditions should be offered an alternative covid-19 vaccine instead of the Oxford/AstraZeneca shot where possible, due to evidence linking the vaccine to rare blood clots. A review by the UK’s medicines regulator found that by the end of March, 79 people in the UK had experienced rare blood clots following vaccination with the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine – 19 of whom had died. The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said this was not definitive evidence that the vaccine caused the clots but said the link was becoming firmer. However, both the MHRA in the UK and the EU’s medicines regulator, which has also been reviewing reports of rare blood clots, emphasised that the benefits of the vaccine in preventing covid-19 continue to outweigh the risk of side effects. “The balance of benefits and risks is still very favourable for the majority of people,” said June Raine, chief executive of the MHRA, at a press conference on 7 April.
Yesterday Sir Keir Starmer chalked up a year since becoming leader of the Labour Party. It must seem longer to him — and not just because time appears to pass so slowly during the interminable lockdowns. For he has struggled unavailingly with a party membership still madly missing Jeremy Corbyn — whose evident distaste for his own country's history aroused a reciprocal contempt in Labour's former heartlands in the North. A recent strategy document Starmer commissioned, leaked to The Guardian, advised Labour to 'make use of the [Union] flag' in order to win back such support — which only provoked the former shadow cabinet minister Clive Lewis to complain of 'pandering to the nativist right'.
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Mel Giedroyc is taking part in the Cambridge Literary Festival. - Credit: Laurie Fletcher An innovative literary festival has announced its lockdown line-up for its spring return next month. A year ago, Cambridge Literary Festival had to close its doors to live events due to the coronavirus pandemic. Last April it delivered a scaled down online alternative, The Listening Festival, and in November a full-scale virtual event. With a new CLF website and two festivals delivered, organisers are ready to do it again from April 21 to April 25, with the line-up featuring award-winning authors, politicians and well-known TV personalities. Douglas Stuart's debut novel Shuggie Bain was awarded the 2020 Brooker Prize.