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FILE PHOTO: People stand in line to get a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outside the Stockholmsmassan exhibition center, turned mass vaccination centre, in Stockholm, Sweden, April 8, 2021. Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via REUTERS
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden’s Health Agency said on Wednesday it would pause plans to start vaccinations using Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine following reports of rare blood clots similar to those reported for the AstraZeneca shot.
The Health Agency said in a statement it would not start the vaccinations and await the findings of a review by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). The vaccine has not yet been used in Sweden though a first batch of 31,000 doses has arrived in the country.
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STOCKHOLM, April 15 (Reuters) - Sweden s centre-left government said it would boost spending on by 45 billion crowns ($5.31 billion)in its spring budget to fight the ongoing pandemic and support a shift to a fossil free economy as the crisis eases. Altogether expenses related to the measures taken since the pandemic began total more than 400 billion crowns, Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson said in a statement.
Many of the measures in the budget had already been announced by the government. (Reporting by Simon Johnson and Johan Ahlander)