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Under-40s are to be offered an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine
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Under-40s are to be offered an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine due to a link with extremely rare blood clots.
The UK s medicines regulator, the MHRA, said 242 blood clots had been discovered among 28 million people who received first doses of the AZ jab up to April 28.
A Covid vaccine being administered at the mass vaccination centre in Castle Quarter, Norwich
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That is an incidence rate of 10.5 per million.
Just six clots were reported among the six million who received second doses of the vaccine - one in a million.
A patient receiving their Covid jab at King s Lynn Corn Exchange
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Almost 50,000 more coronavirus vaccines have been administered in Norfolk and Waveney, according to the latest figures.
Fresh data published by NHS England on Thursday shows 49,056 people received injections in the seven days up to May 2.
That is, however, a 26pc reduction on last week, when
Another 39,180 patients attended appointments for second doses during the latest period, bringing the total number of follow-up vaccines administered to 299,624.
That means more than a third of the area s overall adult population have been fully vaccinated (35.2pc).
And, of all 43 health systems across the nation, only Somerset has a better vaccination rate when it comes to both doses (37.2pc).
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