The World Health Organization is urging “extreme caution” against lifting public health measures in countries around the world as the Covid pandemic rages in countries with low vaccination rates and puts other regions at risk for the spread of variants. Countries with high vaccination rates like the United States and the United Kingdom have been gradually lifting […] Read more
The global pandemic isn’t over yet despite high Covid vaccination rates in some countries, the head of the World Health Organization warned on Monday, days after the CDC told fully vaccinated Americans they can go without masks in most places. “There is a huge disconnect growing where in some countries with the highest vaccination rates, […] Read more
People under the age of 40 in the U.K. are to be offered an alternative to the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, as concerns over links to rare blood clots continue to weigh on its roll out. Speaking at a press conference on Friday, Professor Wei Shen Lim, chair of the U.K.’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and […] Read more
Europe’s medicines regulator found a possible link between the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford and rare blood clotting issues — though it said the benefits of getting the shot still outweigh its risks. Unusual blood clotting with low blood platelets will be added as a “very rare” side effect to the vaccine’s […] Read more
Europe has recorded a sharp rise in the number of new Covid-19 infections in recent weeks, reflecting an alarming trend as the World Health Organization warns “no country can just pretend the pandemic is over.” The number of new coronavirus cases reported across the region increased by 5.6% to a total of just over 4 million […] Read more
