Spain has announced plans to stop administering the Covid-19 vaccine made by Oxford-AstraZeneca to people who are under 60 years old.
The change in criteria comes after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) found a âpossible linkâ between this vaccine and âvery rare cases of unusual blood clots with low blood platelets.â
Up until now, the vast majority of the 2.1 million AstraZeneca doses administered in Spain have gone to essential workers â mostly teachers and members of law enforcement agencies and emergency services â as well as to healthcare workers who were not immunized during the first phase, and to the general population between 60 and 65 years of age.
Spain and Algeria commit to working against illegal immigration
The Foreign Affairs ministers from both countries sat down together on Monday to discuss the problem and agreed to collaborate to seek solutions.
Spain and Algeria have agreed to work together to open orderly, regular channels for businesspeople, students and workers to migrate to Spain in a legal manner, seeking to curb the arrival of irregular immigrants, particularly from the Sahel region of Africa.
During the first visit to Spain since his appointment, the Algerian Foreign Affairs Minister, Sabri Boukadoum, sat down with his Spanish counterpart Aracha Gonzalez Laya on Monday to discuss the matter and plan ways help African citizens migrate legally rather than risking their lives in attempts to enter Spain illegally.