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A 60-year old Danish woman who died of a blood clot after receiving AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine had “highly unusual” symptoms, the Danish medicines agency has said.
AFP reports:
It said the woman had a low number of blood platelets and clots in small and large vessels, as well as bleeding. European vaccination programmes have been upset in the last two weeks by reports that recipients of the AstraZeneca inoculation have suffered blood clots.
The European Medicines Agency has said there is no indication that the events were caused by the vaccination, a view that was echoed by the World Health Organization on Friday.
South Korea has unveiled plans to expand its immunisation campaign to include more senior citizens, health workers and other frontline professionals, with an aim to inoculate nearly a quarter of its 52 million people by June.
Reuters reports:
Starting in April, more priority groups will receive a vaccine, including more people aged 65 or above, other healthcare workers, police, fire officials, soldiers and flight attendants, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said.
South Korea began inoculating high-risk medical workers and the critically ill at the end of February as it battles a third wave of Covid-19 and seeks to achieve herd immunity by November.
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