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Live Updates: Use of AstraZeneca Vaccine in Netherlands Suspended Until at Least 29 March

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Live Updates: Use of AstraZeneca Vaccine in Netherlands Suspended Until at Least 29 March

04:28 GMT 14.03.2021 (Updated: 22:11 GMT 14.03.2021)

The global toll of coronavirus cases has topped 119 million, according to Baltimore, Maryland's Johns Hopkins University, which tracks and compiles data from national and local authorities, the media and other sources.

The United States continues to report the highest raw number of confirmed cases and deaths, 29 million and 534,279, respectively.

Brazil overtook India as the country with the second-highest number of cases, 11.43 million; it continues to have the second-highest death toll: 277,102.

India has registered its highest single-day increase in cases so far this year, 24,882, which lifted the country's total number to 11.33 million; there have been 158,446 deaths.

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22:45 GMT 14.03.2021

43,000 Vaccination Appointments to Reportedly Be Cancelled in Netherlands After Decision to Pause AstraZeneca Use

22:09 GMT 14.03.2021

Use of AstraZeneca Vaccine in Netherlands Suspended Until at Least 29 March

18:43 GMT 14.03.2021

AstraZeneca Says Found No Evidence of Blood Clotting Risks From Its COVID-19 Vaccine

18:43 GMT 14.03.2021

Over 461,000 COVID-19 Cases Reported Globally in 24 Hours, With 8,419 Deaths, WHO Says

17:53 GMT 14.03.2021

EU Able to Pull Off COVID-19 Immunization Despite Vaccine Supply Shortfalls, Official Says

17:30 GMT 14.03.2021

France Reports Over 26,000 New COVID-19 Cases, 140 New Fatalities

16:15 GMT 14.03.2021

French Labour Minister Tests Positive for COVID-19

15:54 GMT 14.03.2021

Italy Reports More Than 21,000 New COVID Cases, 264 New Deaths

13:32 GMT 14.03.2021

AstraZeneca to Cut COVID-19 Vaccine Supplies to Czech Republic by 40%

10:52 GMT 14.03.2021

Germany's BioNTech Creates Alliance of 13 Firms to Accelerate Vaccine Production, Reports Say

10:33 GMT 14.03.2021

Russia Registers 10,083 COVID-19 Cases in Past 24 Hours

10:00 GMT 14.03.2021

Ireland Recommends Suspending AstraZeneca Jab Over Blood Clot Fears

08:59 GMT 14.03.2021

Germany's Confirmed COVID-19 Cases Rise by 10,790

06:55 GMT 14.03.2021

Hong Kong Registers 2 New Deaths of Old People Vaccinated Against COVID-19

06:36 GMT 14.03.2021

Ukraine Reports 9,012 New COVID-19 Cases

04:28 GMT 14.03.2021

India Registers 25,317 New COVID-19 Cases

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22:43 GMT 14.03.2021

Dutch health authorities will cancel 43,000 vaccination appointments following a decision to pause the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the country for at least two weeks, the ANP news agency reported.

22:08 GMT 14.03.2021

The Dutch Health Ministry announced on Sunday that the use of AstraZeneca vaccine in the Netherlands will be paused for two weeks as a precautionary measure, pending further investigation.

18:43 GMT 14.03.2021

The UK-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca said on Sunday that it had found no evidence of increased risk of blood clots from its COVID-19 vaccine after conducting a review of safety data of over 17 million inoculated people across the European Union and the United Kingdom.

"A careful review of all available safety data of more than 17 million people vaccinated in the European Union (EU) and UK with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca has shown no evidence of an increased risk of pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or thrombocytopenia, in any defined age group, gender, batch or in any particular country," AstraZeneca said in a press release.

18:39 GMT 14.03.2021

17:51 GMT 14.03.2021

The European Union can meet its COVID-19 vaccination campaign targets in the first quarter of the year despite delays in the supply of the AstraZeneca vaccine doses, EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on Sunday.

"Delays in AstraZeneca's deliveries do not mean there will be delays in the first quarter of the vaccination program," Breton told French broadcaster Europe 1, adding that "Pfizer is producing more than expected" and describing this as an "opportunity to compensate" for the supply shortfalls.

On March 10, the European Commission said it had reached an agreement with Pfizer-BioNTech pharmaceutical duo for an additional 4 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to be delivered by the end of this month.

With the supply crisis going on in the EU, some member states lose trust in Brussels and decide to make early orders separately. Thus, Hungary turned to Russia and China in a bid to ensure a sufficient number of vaccine doses. As a result, the country has the best results in the EU in terms of vaccinated people, far ahead of all the heavyweight EU countries.

17:30 GMT 14.03.2021

16:13 GMT 14.03.2021

French Labour Minister Elisabeth Borne took to Twitter on Sunday to announce that she has tested positive for coronavirus.

She said that her symptoms are mild and that she will continue working remotely.

Testée positive à la COVID-19, je continuerai d’exercer mes fonctions à distance. Malgré quelques symptômes, je me porte bien.
Prenez soin de vous et de vos proches.
— Elisabeth BORNE (@Elisabeth_Borne) March 14, 2021

15:45 GMT 14.03.2021

13:31 GMT 14.03.2021

The next supplies of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine to the Czech Republic will be reduced by 40 percent, the country's Health Ministry said on Sunday, citing the UK-Swedish pharmaceutical company.

On Friday, AstraZeneca confirmed a shortfall in shipments of doses to the whole of the European Union. The company explained that the shortfall was due to "lower-than-expected output from the production process" and asserted readiness to compensate for part of the shortfall with vaccines from the international supply network. AstraZeneca aims to provide the European Union with 100 million doses in the first half of the year, 30 million of which are due to be delivered in the first quarter.

"We have our first results from the negotiations with the manufacturers of the AstraZeneca vaccine. According to them, the next vaccine supplies to the Czech Republic will be reduced by 40 percent. As such, we will receive 9,600 doses instead of 16,800 in the coming week; 10,800 instead of 88,000 from 22 March to 28 March. At the end of March, we will receive 99,800 doses of the vaccine," the ministry said in a statement.

On Saturday, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis told reporters that he and his four counterparts from Austria, Bulgaria, Latvia and Slovenia sent a letter to the heads of the European Commission and Council, pointing out that the deliveries of vaccine doses to individual EU member states were not being implemented on "an equal basis."

According to Babis, the current vaccine supplies are not sufficient to vaccinate 70 percent of the adult EU population, therefore, jabs should be allocated proportionally to the size of each member state's population.

10:52 GMT 14.03.2021

The German biotechnology firm BioNTech has set up an alliance of 13 firms designed to speed up the production of the coronavirus vaccine it develops jointly with the US company Pfizer to compensate for the shortages of doses, the Wall Street Journal newspaper reported.

BioNTech negotiated with such companies as Swiss Novartis, German Merck Group, and French Sanofi, which are Pfizer's rivals in the vaccine development, to join the project among other firms. The talks on the initiative were conducted in coordination with Pfizer.

Overall, BioNTeach envisages the production of 2 billion doses of its vaccine against COVID-19 for the deliveries in 2021 within the framework of the new partnership. The companies engaged in the alliance would participate in all stages of vaccine production. The alliance will produce nearly half of the global volume of the active ingredient supply for the vaccine.

In early February, BioNTech said that it had planned to produce 2 billion doses of its coronavirus vaccine in 2021 due to an increased global demand. Notably, Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was the first to be authorized for use in the European Union, which launched a mass vaccination campaign in late December 2020. However, the companies have faced criticism from several member states of the bloc over their vaccine supply cuts due to reported production capacity issues.

10:32 GMT 14.03.2021

Russia registered 10,083 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, up from 9,908 the day before, taking the overall tally to 4,390,608, the coronavirus response centre said on Saturday.

"Over the past day, 10,083 coronavirus cases were confirmed across 84 Russian regions, including 1,266 cases (12.6 percent) without clinical symptoms," the centre said, adding that the cumulative case count has now reached 4,390,608, with the rate of increase at 0.23 percent.

Moscow confirmed 1,905 new coronavirus cases over the given period, up from 1,600 the day before. The Russian capital was followed by St. Petersburg with 937 new cases, down from 943 the day before, and the Moscow Region with 605 new cases, down from 609 on Saturday.

The response centre reported 395 COVID-19 fatalities, down from 475 the day before, raising the country's death toll to 92,090.

Total recoveries increased by 9,232 over the given period, down from 12,868 the day before, and reached 3,995,129.

09:59 GMT 14.03.2021

The COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine has been temporarily differed from administration in Ireland, the country's health officials announced on Sunday, a day after new information emerged on blood clotting incidents in inoculated people in Norway.

"The decision to temporarily suspend use of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine was based on new information from Norway that emerged late last night. This is a precautionary step," Irish Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly wrote on his Twitter.

Even though it has not been concluded whether there is a link between the vaccine and the cases of blood, Ireland’s National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) has recommended the "temporary deferral" of the AstraZeneca vaccine as a "precautionary principle" in a press release published earlier on Sunday.

So far, over 110,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have been administered in Ireland.

The NIAC is due to meet again this morning and a further statement will be released later on.

Earlier this week, several European countries, including Denmark, Iceland and Norway, halted the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine after Austria said it was investigating the death of a vaccinated woman from multiple thromboses. The European Medicines Agency said there was currently no indication that the reported negative effects had been caused by the vaccination.

08:59 GMT 14.03.2021

06:55 GMT 14.03.2021

Hong Kong's Health Department has reported two fatalities among old people with chronic diseases who got inoculated with vaccine against the coronavirus in early March.

According to the department's statement, two men passed away on Saturday during their treatment in hospitals. The first fatality was an 80-year-old man who suffered ischaemic bowel disease. His case was announced on 7 March. He was inoculated on 1 March.

Another deceased man, aged 67, was vaccinated with CoronaVac on 2 March. Nine days later, he suddenly fell unconscious in a public place and was subsequently hospitalized. The patient had a history of diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.

The department also said that a man, aged 63, with a history of polycythemia, atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, and alcoholic fatty liver started to have symptoms of a suspected serious adverse reaction on 10 March, and was administered to intensive care in critical condition on Saturday. He received a dose of the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine on 9 March.

The vaccination program in Hong Kong began on 26 February. According to the latest data, to date over 160,000 people were vaccinated. As of Sunday, Hong Kong confirmed 11,257 COVID-19 cases and 203 related fatalities.

06:36 GMT 14.03.2021

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