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CDC issues guidelines after reports of allergic reactions
The present guidelines advise staying home for 14 days after the last contact with a person who has Covid-19.PHOTO: ST FILE
PublishedDec 21, 2020, 5:00 am SGT
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Sharon Seretlo
This comes after Britain warned of a new virus strain, and enforced stricter lockdowns.
The country s government has warned the virus is getting out of control .
The number of Covid-19 cases in Britain surged by 35 928 on Sunday, official data showed, the highest daily rise since the start of the pandemic.
There were also 326 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, lower than the 534 recorded on Saturday.
The government has toughened restrictions in London and southeast England to try to curb the spread of a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus.
European countries started banning flights coming from the UK on Sunday as government in London warned that a potent new strain of the virus was out of control .
TOKYO (AFP) - Pharmaceutical firms must be very transparent about the risks and benefits of vaccines in efforts to end the coronavirus pandemic, the head of Asia s largest drugmaker has told Agence France-Presse.
Takeda, one of the world s biggest pharmaceutical companies, is not developing its own vaccine but has contracts with several firms to distribute their jabs in Japan and is also testing a virus treatment. We have to manage the situation well, be very transparent and extremely educative in the way we introduce products, chief executive Christophe Weber told AFP in an interview. Medicines or vaccines are never perfect. there are always some side effects, said Mr Weber, who joined Takeda in 2014 and took the top job a year later after nearly two decades at Britain s GlaxoSmithKline.
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