Coronavirus

A day after the announcement of the resumption of vaccination, Spanish health authorities said the death of a Spanish woman who had had blood clots was not linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine she had received some time before. « There is no cause / effect relationship between the administration of the …

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for a greater openness and reciprocity on vaccine exports, speaking in a newspaper interview about an ongoing row with Britain and the United States over vaccine deliveries, Reuters Agency reports. “I ask for greater openness as Europe is among the regions in …

About 24 hours after the favorable opinion on the AstraZeneca vaccine issued Thursday at the end of the day by the European Medicines Agency, Finland has nevertheless chosen to suspend « by virtue of the precautionary principle » the campaign using this product. Finland, which had so far not suspended the AstraZeneca …

The boss of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has sent his congratulations to Samia Suluhu Hassan, the Tanzanian new president, saying he hopes they can work together to tackle coronavirus. « I look forward to working with you to keep people safe from Covid-19, end the pandemic and …

Brazil recorded this Wednesday 90,303 new cases of Covid-19 contamination in 24 hours, a record, as well as 2,648 new deaths, bringing the daily average over the last seven days to 2017, the highest since the start of the pandemic. With these two new records, this country of 212 million …

The United States plans to send roughly 4 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine that it is not using to Mexico and Canada in loan deals with the two countries, Reuters reports. According to officials, Mexico will receive 2.5 million doses of the vaccine and Canada will receive 1.5 million …

John Magufuli the Tanzanian president is no longer. The announcement has been done by the country’s Vice-president . In an address on state television on Wednesday, Samia Suluhu Hassan the Vice-president said he died from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam. « It is with deep regret that …

In order to help Mozambique respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, a group of 39 Cuban intensive care health experts have been received in the country. On Tuesday, the doctors and nurses joined another group of 14 healthcare workers who had arrived in the country in January. Read also: Activist jailed …

The European Union may get more restrictive in exporting COVID-19 vaccines to safeguard essential jabs for its own citizens facing a third wave of the pandemic, the head of the bloc’s executive said on Wednesday. Ursula von der Leyen’s announcement risks escalating tensions with the United Kingdom and the Unites …

Somalia started administering COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday. In order to reassure the nation about its safety and efficiency, the health minister was the first to receive the jab. The country which has recently experienced a surge of cases, on Monday received its first shipment of 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine …