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Merkel holds crisis meeting as some regions halt AstraZeneca for under-60s – Sydney Morning Herald
Several German regions have suspended use of the shots in people under 60 after reviewing the latest data on rare side-effects released by Germany’s medical regulator….
The suspensions come as Germany, along with other European countries, is scrambling to ramp up its vaccine program, which lags far behind those in Britain and the United States. By Monday, some 13.2 million people in the country had received at least one dose of vaccine, while nearly 4 million had received both shots.
Use of the AstraZeneca vaccine was temporarily halted in several European countries earlier this month over concerns about the rare blood clots. After a review by medical experts at…
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