Covid-19 still hangs over the world like omnipresent smog. With 129 cases reported worldwide, the danger is still clear and present.
Save for a couple of countries, Covid-19 is not only surviving but thriving.
Uruguay has joined the C100K grouping – making it country #87. And these eighty-seven countries account for 98.2% and 98.5% of global cases and deaths respectively.
German Health Minister Jens Spahn and the 16 state health ministers on Tuesday decided to suspend the routine use of the AstraZeneca vaccine for people under age 60 at an emergency meeting.
Authorities in the cities of Berlin and Munich had earlier decided to limit the use of the vaccine.
People under 60 can still receive the shot, but only "at the discretion of doctors, and after individual risk analysis and thorough explanation", according to a document seen by the DPA news agency.
Germany's permanent vaccine commission, known by the short name STIKO, said they had made the decision "on the basis of currently available data on the occurrence of rare, but very serious thrombosis-related side-effects".
According to Spiegel magazine, Germany’s medicines regulator Paul Ehrlich Institute have apparently reported 31 cases of blood clots in people who have received AstraZeneca. Surely, this is alarming, is it not?
Malaysia should take note.
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