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Under 40s in UK to be given alternative vaccine to AstraZeneca when possible
From CNN s Lindsay Isaac
People under the age of 40 in the UK will be given an alternative vaccine to AstraZeneca when possible, authorities said Friday, following reports of 242 cases of a very rare blood clotting condition in the country.
The decision by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) follows an April decision to offer a preference of vaccines to people under age 30, as the condition appears to affect younger adults.
In its updated advice the JCVI has determined that people aged 30-39 should be preferentially offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca vaccine when possible and as long as there is no delay to getting the vaccine,” Prof Wei Shen Lim of JCVI said in a press conference.
Covid-19 cases surpass 150 million globally
There are now over 150 million cases of COVID-19 worldwide, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
It comes less than 13 months after the World Health Organization officially declared the novel coronavirus outbreak had developed into a pandemic.
Despite rapid development of multiple vaccines for the virus and a number of countries bringing their Covid-19 infections under control, there are still hundreds of thousands of new cases every day.
According to Johns Hopkins, there were more than 905,000 new infections recorded globally on Wednesday alone.
To date, more than 3.1 million people have died from the coronavirus worldwide.
India Covid-19 ICU chief: What we are seeing is nothing short of an apocalypse
From CNN s Adrienne Vogt
An intensive care unit chief in India said the devastating coronavirus wave in the country is “nothing short of an apocalypse.”
“We ve had patients being rushed in, almost wards getting filled up overnight, 90 patients in less than 12 hours. The problem with this virus is the second wave is extremely contagious, extremely aggressive, and it is affecting the younger population in a significantly different way that we had not expected,” said Dr. Farah Husain, head of the Covid-19 ICU unit at Lok Nayak Hospital in Delhi.