The World Health Organization is studying the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine ... and Europe records 900 thousand deaths

A new mutation of the Corona virus was discovered in Brittany, France

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Medicines Agency have recommended that the AstraZeneca vaccine be continued.

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Yesterday, health officials in France said that a new mutated strain of the emerging corona virus was discovered in the Brittany region, while experts from the World Health Organization were looking into the safety of the AstraZeneca vaccine against the Corona virus, which many European countries had stopped using, for fear of the effects Potentially dangerous side, while the epidemic has killed more than 900,000 people in Europe.

In detail, the officials stated, in a statement, after discovering a large number of infections in a hospital in Lanyon: "The first analyzes of this strain do not allow us to determine whether it is more dangerous or contagious than the original virus."

The new mutation was discovered when repeated symptoms appeared on the infected, but the Corona tests that were conducted for them came negative, and the tests must now begin to better understand the new strain, especially how it interacts with vaccines and antibodies for those previously infected with other strains of the virus.

The health authorities in France indicated that mutations that lead to the emergence of new strains are common in viruses, and that there are systems in place to monitor these changes.

This comes at a time when the World Health Organization and the European Medicines Agency recommended continuing to administer the AstraZeneca vaccine, and the European Commission said that the benefits of the vaccine "outweigh its risks", while the World Health Organization considered that there is no proven "link" at this stage between the vaccine and the serious blood problems, which were recorded. In people who have been vaccinated.

Seven additional European countries, namely Germany, France, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Portugal and Latvia, suspended the day before yesterday, giving the AstraZeneca vaccine a precautionary measure, after the emergence of serious blood problems among some of its recipients, such as blood clots and blood clots, and Sweden, Luxembourg and Cyprus followed suit, yesterday.

These countries are awaiting a recommendation from the European Medicines Agency, which will hold an "extraordinary meeting" tomorrow.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced that the organization's expert advisory group on vaccination operations will meet to review the safety of the vaccine.

At a press conference in Geneva, the chief scientist of the World Health Organization, Sumaya Swaminatan, said yesterday: "We do not want people to panic, at the present time we recommend countries to continue vaccination with AstraZeneca."

These questions come at a time when "Covid-19" has claimed the lives of more than 2.66 million people around the world, including more than 900 thousand deaths in Europe, the continent most affected by the epidemic, according to a census carried out by Agence France-Presse yesterday.

The region, which includes 52 countries and regions, including Russia and Turkey, recorded 900,936 thousand deaths (out of 42,689.923 million injuries).

The French Minister of Health, Olivier Ferrand, who hopes to resume the immunization campaign in his country with the AstraZeneca vaccine, confirmed that the people who received a dose of it "are not at risk."

Fifteen countries have suspended the use of the vaccine as a precaution.

But Georgia and Sierra Leone launched their campaign with this vaccine, the day before yesterday, ignoring concerns about its side effects.

In Thailand, the Prime Minister, Prayut Chan-O-Cha, received the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, yesterday, indicating the start of the campaign with this vaccine after it was suspended for days.

AstraZeneca says that "there is no evidence of an increased risk" of a blood clot resulting from its vaccine, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed yesterday that this vaccine, which is widely given in the United Kingdom, is "safe" and "very effective".

This is a new problem that adds to the problems of the AstraZeneca laboratory, which previously announced a new reduction in vaccine shipments to the European Union, by June, due to export problems.

Yesterday, the French Minister of State for European Affairs, Clément Bonn, declared that the European Union “does not rule out” legal prosecutions against the laboratory, denouncing these delays.

The European Commission said yesterday that the European Union also expects "more than 200 million doses" of the Pfizer / Biontech vaccine to arrive in the second quarter of the year, following an agreement stipulating "speeding up" deliveries.

For its part, AstraZeneca announced that it had concluded an agreement with the United States to provide the country, this year, with up to 700,000 doses of antibody treatment under development against the Corona virus.

China announced that it is about to ease restrictions imposed on entering its territory for citizens of certain countries, including the United States, but on the condition that they have received a Chinese vaccine.

- The countries that stopped the AstraZeneca vaccine are awaiting a recommendation from the European Medicines Agency, which will hold, tomorrow, an "extraordinary meeting."

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