 | | | | Brazil is negotiating to buy a new tranche of 100 million doses of the Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) COVID-19 vaccine, Communications Minister Fabio Faria wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. | | | | | | Problems that have delayed AstraZeneca (AZN.L) supplies to the COVAX vaccine-sharing facility have been resolved, UNICEF told Reuters on Tuesday, saying it should receive 65 million doses by end-May from manufacturers outside India. | | | | | | Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) said on Tuesday it will resume rolling out its COVID-19 vaccine in Europe after the region's medical regulator said the benefits of the shot outweigh the risk of very rare, potentially lethal blood clots. | | | | | | A German scientist studying extremely rare blood clots linked to AstraZeneca's (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccine said on Tuesday Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) has agreed to work with him on the research after similar serious side effects emerged in recipients of its shot. | | | | | | The European Union's drug regulator said on Tuesday there had been more than 300 cases worldwide of rare blood clotting incidents combined with low platelet counts after use of COVID-19 vaccines. | | | | | | Canada's biggest city Toronto and neighboring Peel, both of which are in the midst of a third wave of COVID-19 infections, on Tuesday said they would order businesses to close if they had outbreaks involving five or more people, medical officials said. | | | | | | Italy's health ministry on Tuesday recommended that the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine be used for people over the age of 60, after Europe's drugs regulator said the jab may be linked to blood clotting issues among younger people. | | | | | | Europe's drug regulator has found a possible link between Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ.N) COVID-19 vaccine and rare blood clotting issues in adults who received doses in the United States, but backed its overall benefits against any risks. | | | | | | An Argentine firm has produced test batches of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, the first in Latin America, with aims to scale up manufacturing of the drug by mid-year as the wider region grapples with a new surge in infections. | | | | | | The fight against COVID-19 is a lonely one with patients forced into isolation in intensive care wards, removed from family and friends. | | | | | |
