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The World Health Organisation (WHO), yesterday, raised fresh safety concerns about Janssen and AstraZeneca vaccines. x A statement, by its Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) COVID-19 subcommittee on reports of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) following adenovirus vector COVID-19 vaccines, warned that vaccination with the Janssen and AstraZeneca jabs could cause rare immune system disorder that results in muscle weakness, pain, numbness and paralysis (GBS). Nigeria had, in March, received 3.92 million AstraZeneca doses and immunised over two...

Yasmeen Abutaleb, Tyler Pager, Laurie McGinley and Lena H. Sun11:52, Jul 11 2021 Pfizer is expected to brief top US government health officials in the coming days about the need for a coronavirus vaccine booster shot after an unusually public spat between the pharmaceutical giant and federal officials over whether a third shot will be necessary, according to the company and six people familiar with the plans. Pfizer and the German firm BioNTech announced last week that they planned to seek regulatory approval for a booster within weeks because they anticipated that people would need a third ...

SINGAPORE - Singapore’s expert committee on Covid-19 vaccination and a senior infectious diseases specialist from the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) have come out to counter claims by a group of doctors behind an open letter arguing for a halt in the vaccination of young people here. In a revised statement issued on Monday (June 28), the Ministry of Health (MOH), which oversees the Expert Committee on Covid-19 Vaccination, said that news reports about a child's death in the United States did not state heart failure as a cause, as alleged in the open letter. "The matter i...

Health regulators in several countries have been investigating cases of myocarditis and pericarditis after a shot of Pfizer or Moderna. — Reuters/File WASHINGTON: The US drug regulator on Friday added a warning to the literature that accompanies Pfizer Inc /BioNTech and Mod­erna Covid vaccine shots to indicate the rare risk of heart inflammation after its use. For each vaccine, the fact sheets for healthcare providers have been revised to inc­lude a warning that reports of adverse events suggest increased risks of myocarditis and pericarditis, particularly after the second dose and with ...